#GHANA 🇬🇭 – incisive dialogue session convened Media Foundation for West Africa looks into how stakeholders can collaborate against mis/disinformation ahead of 2024 elections 2024: ow.ly/5mVN50ReJC3

#SENEGAL 🇸🇳 - 📢 RSF urges incoming President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to honour his campaign promises to protect journalists and uphold the RightToInformation: ow.ly/lkGo50ReJBs

#SOUTHAFRICA 🇿🇦 - Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes ruling Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that shows that country’s intelligence service does not have a blank check to censor the media at will: ow.ly/RWGm50ReJzV

'This law provides the authorities with a powerful tool to discredit and curtail independent voices, threatening press freedom and free of expression'

#Georgia : Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners call on Georgian Dream Party to withdraw 'foreign agent' bill ow.ly/8GJV50ReyxB

Read our statement on Hong Kong’s denial of entry to a Reporters Without Borders representative: fcchk.org/fcc-statement-…

A content analysis of Nepali media by Umesh Pokharel found a significant disparity in coverage of LGBTIQ+ community despite the media-attention it deserves; persistent inaccuracies and stereotypes in media portrayals of the community.
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FOEWatch 1 - 7 April 2024

#India : At a time when press freedom has seriously deteriorated in recent years, RSF is appealing to the 🇮🇳 political parties, in the run-up to the elections, to commit themselves to taking 10 measures in favour of the right to information. 👇rsf.org/en/india-s-pol…

#MALAWI 🇲🇼 - MISA Malawi says arrest of journalist Macmillan Mhone for reporting on corruption highlights the existence of many laws that undermine media freedom and implore Malawi Government🇲🇼 to review these laws: ow.ly/WQBR50ReJyP

#Norway : We express profound disappointment and concern over the lack of justice for the attempted murder of our Vice President William Nygaard and renew our call for full justice and accountability: pen-international.org/news/norway-la… William Nygaard Norsk PEN

'Over the past year, the 29-country region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia experienced further democratic setbacks amid escalating authoritarian attacks on basic rights and liberties' - Freedom House
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The call for applications for Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom 2024 Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners 8-12 July in Florence is out! How is #ArtificialIntelligence reshaping #journalism ? 37 #scholarships available to participants from #Europe #Africa , #Asia #Pacific #LatinAmerica 👇🏽

#Belgium : the judicial verdict to cancel the €200 fine imposed on reporter Yassin Akouh, supported by RSF, is good news for #pressfreedom . The #Brussels police had wrongly accused him of having participated in 2022 at riots on the margin of a football game he was covering.

#Ukraine : Russians create a new propaganda network in the occupied territories - via ІМІ imi.org.ua/en/news/russia…

North Macedonia police arrest journalist Furkan Saliu at soccer match cpj.org/?p=376433 via CPJ Europe and Central Asia

#TOGO 🇹🇬 - Journalist Apollinaire Mewenemesse charged with numerous defamation, incitement, and anti-state offenses for questioning findings in a murder trial of an army officer: ow.ly/zoPM50ReJye

RSF calls on European governments to 'step up support for Belarusian media in exile in order to preserve the last sources of reliable and essential news and information' - RSF #Belarus ow.ly/YMo750RbQOm

ICYMI Justice comes late in #Turkey . Journalist Hacı Boğatekin was acquitted 16 years after facing dubious ‘terror’ charges over an article published in 2008 - bianet English ow.ly/A20i50RbQAM

Giorgos Karaivaz was one of #Greece 's most prominent investigative journalists, specialising in organised crime and police reporting. He was gunned down outside his Athens home on 9 April 2021. There has been no discernible progress in the investigation. ow.ly/Ajgv50RbPKX

#ANGOLA 🇦🇴 - Country's proposed national security law could hinder public’s right to information and severely undermine press freedom, further exposing journalists to harassment, intimidation, and censorship by authorities says Committee to Protect Journalists: ow.ly/mOHX50ReJwC