Media Rights Monitor

Groups Launch First Ever Environmental Democracy Index

Political Thugs Assault Journalist for Taking Pictures

Submission of Entries Open for Rory Peck Award

Journalismfund.eu Announces Intercontinental Working Grant Programme

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival Seeks Entries

2015 Global Media Forum Holds This Month

UN Human Rights Council Establishes a Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

Groups Launch Global Campaign for Transparency of Media Ownership

IWMF Announces The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

New Board Emerges for Anambra State Broadcasting Service

Nigeria ranks 77 in 2015 WJP Open Government Index

AMI Appoints New Members for Board of Trustees

Syrian Journalist Mazen Darwish Awarded UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

MRA Publishes Manual on Reporting Impunity and Election

Small Grants Available to Support Campaigns and Digital Rights in Africa

UN to Host Forum on ‘Defending Artistic Expression’ in March 2015

WACMN Releases West Africa Contract Monitoring Publication

Submissions Open for 2015 Google/Knight Foundation Data Journalism Awards for Media Practitioners

Working Group Proposes New Media Strategy for the EU

CLD Makes Submission on Encryption and Anonymity in Digital Communication

UNESCO, Latvia Government Host 2015 WPFD

Freemuse Release 2015 Report on Attack on Artistic Freedom

IFJ, UNESCO Develop Safety Curriculum for Media Students in the Middle East

World Forum of Free Media Calls for Activity Proposals

Entries Open for Joan Shorenstein Center Fellowship at Harvard

MRA’s Programme Director Urges Journalists to Use FOI Act to Deepen Their Reporting

MRA Inducts NDLEA into ‘Enhanced FOI Hall of Shame’, for Non-Compliance with FOI Act

Journalists Arrested While Covering Religious Protest

UNGA Adopts 11th Resolution on Safety of Journalists

UN Appoints South Africa’s Anriette Esterhuysen to Chair IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group

MRA Inducts NDLEA into ‘Enhanced FOI Hall of Shame’, for Non-Compliance with FOI Act

Nigerians Condemn Bill that Prescribes Death Penalty for Hate Speech

African Commission Extends Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Free Expression, 14 Other Special Mechanism by 6 Months

PPDC, MRA Urge Federal Government to Ensure Full Implementation of Open Contracting in Nigeria

Varsity Student Expelled for Alleged Defamation of Character Debunks Allegation

Bill to Regulate Social Media Passes First Reading in Senate

AFEX Condemns Killing of Congolese Journalist, Calls for Prosecution of Perpetrators

PPDC, MRA Urge Federal Government to Ensure Full Implementation of Open Contracting in Nigeria

Radio Nigeria Staff, One Other Assassinated by Gunmen in Benue

CWPPF Condemns Alarming Trend of Media Censorship in Nigeria as it Commemorates International Day to End Impunity

UNESCO Calls for Nominations for 2020 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Minister of Information Announces Government’s Plans to ‘Sanitise’ Social Media

Gunmen Abduct Journalist, Demand Ransom for His Release

ACHPR and OHCHR Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Ongoing Collaboration

Alliance for Affordable Internet Releases 2019 Internet Affordability Report

ACHPR Special Rapporteur Advocates Establishment of Programmes to Support Universal Internet Access

Impunity Persists as Majority of Journalist Murders Occurred in Democracies

UNESCO Supports African Annual Judicial Dialogue