Events

CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour is speaking on a panel on Thursday, June 16, 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. The focus is on Yemen, where human rights defenders, journalists, and civilians have increasingly come under fire.

CPJ Middle East and North Africa Coordinator Sherif Mansour will speak at a panel on Saudi Arabia’s Midterm UPR Assessment in Geneva on June 16, 2016. The panel discussion is focused on providing a comprehensive overview of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia upon the opportunity of the kingdom’s midterm Universal Periodic Review.

Sherif Mansour, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, is speaking on a panel on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Geneva, Switzerland. The event, which CPJ is co-sponsoring, is focusing on human rights issues in Egypt.

CPJ is co-sponsoring a panel, Comparing Technical Cooperation Programs in Bahrain, on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. Join the panelists in this discussion that provides a comparative look at technical cooperation programs in Bahrain.

Joel Simon, CPJ’s executive director, is scheduled to speak at Sophia Institute of International Relations in Japan on June 13, 2016. He will be joined by discussant Professor Kiyoshi Okonogi to talk about how to protect journalists and press freedom in a time of unprecedented danger.

CPJ Advocacy Director Courtney Radsch moderates the Internet Governance Specialists panel at Global Media Policy Forum on Monday, June 13, 2016 in Cartagena, Colombia. Join Radsch and other panelists as they bring in the discussion internet governance experts and civil society for a wider examination of zero-rating plans and their potential impact on news consumption.

Carlos Lauria, CPJ’s Program Director and Senior Americas Program Coordinator, will participate in the 158 extraordinary period of sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, from June 6 to 10.

New York, May 27, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists will call for the cases of five Vietnamese-American journalists who were killed between 1981 and 1990 to be reopened, based on information uncovered by ProPublica and Frontline. The suspected assassinations were the subject of CPJ’s 1994 report, “Silenced, The Unsolved Murders of Immigrant Journalists in the…

UNESCO and the Government of Finland will co-host the World Press Freedom Day’s main event and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Ceremony in 2016 which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from May 2-4, 2016. The event will include the Opening Ceremony, Plenary Sessions, Parallel Roundtable Sessions, and the Award Ceremony of the…

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Erasmushogeschool Brussel, BOZAR, Evens Foundation & iMinds, together with other partners (WAN, EBU, ACT, MPAA, European Commission, UNESCO, European Parliament) along with the Committee to Protect Journalists celebrate Difference Day by honouring people and organisations that make a…