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Press Statement India: Declare Journalists as ‘Frontline Workers’, Enact Safety Law: IJU04 May, 2021 On World Press Freedom Day today, the Indian Journalists Union drew the Union government’s urgent attention to the grim fact that over hundred journalists have lost their lives this past year, 45 alone in the second wave of the pandemic across the country. In a letter to both Prime Minister Modi and President Kovind, the IJU said journalists are carrying out their duties, despite all odds, to have a better informed public during this crisis, and its incumbent on the government to facilitate the functioning of the media, the fourth pillar of democracy, and declare the journalists too as ‘frontline workers’. At a meeting held online of its member States, including the North East, to observe WPFD, the IJU said the demand has been raised earlier but not acted upon. It is all the more relevant today, it said, as this year’s WPFD theme is “Information as a Public Good,” and “it serves as a call to affirm the importance of cherishing information as a public good, and exploring what can be done in the production, distribution and reception of content to strengthen journalism, and to advance transparency and empowerment while leaving no one behind.” The IJU also urged an advisory be issued that all journalists be given free vaccination and on a priority basis. Besides, an insurance scheme to cover journalists be announced as provided to ‘frontline workers’ as they too are part and parcel of essential services. In a statement, IJU President and former Member, Press Council of India Geetartha Pathak and Secretary General and IFJ Vice President Sabina Inderjit reiterated demand for a special safety law for journalists be enacted. There is harassment and intimidation of journalists, arbitrary detentions, false cases under draconian laws such as sedition, UAPA and NSA, specially in BJP-ruled States, particularly UP. Besides, there has been a steady downgrading of India’s press freedom index. The Union welcomes the Supreme Court’s direction and warning there ‘shouldn’t be any clampdown on information’ as it will be treated ‘as contempt of court’. ‘If citizens communicate their grievance on social media and internet it cannot be said it’s wrong information,” the court noted. Sabina Inderjit Secretary General Written By F-29, Shankar Market Connaught Circus, New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91 9810889396 Comments Resources - Media Freedom in Sri Lanka- 2020 09/24/2021 Download - Chasing Justice : Study on impunity for crimes against journalists in Maldives 08/22/2021 Download - IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, August 2021 08/18/2021 Download
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Press Statement पत्रकारमाथि भएकाे दुर्व्यवहारकाे निन्दा11 Jun, 2017 भक्तपुरको ठिमिस्थित हनुमन्ते खोलाको प्राकृतिक धार परिर्वतनको समाचार संकलनका क्रममा पत्रकारमाथि भएको दुव्र्यवहारको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । हिजो जेठ २७ गते समाचार संकलनमा रहेकी महासंघ भक्तपुर शाखा कार्यसमिति सदस्य तथा कान्तिपुर दैनिककी लीला श्रेष्ठ, पार्षद एवं राससका फोटो पत्रकार रत्नकृष्ण श्रेष्ठ, रमेश गिरी र मिडिया एमपीका पत्रकार सुदिपकुमार पौडेललाई खोलाको धार परिवर्तन गराउने पक्षले दुव्र्यवहार गर्नुका साथै पत्रकारहरुको क्यामराको भिडियो फुटेज मेटाउने तथा मोबाइल फुटाउने प्रयाससमेत गरेको जानकारी प्राप्त भएको छ । नगारिकलाई सुसूचित गराउने कर्ममा जुटेका पत्रकारमाथि भएको यो घटना स्वतन्त्र पत्रकारितामाथिको हस्तक्षेप हो । महासंघ घटनाको निन्दा गर्दै दोषीमाथि कार्वाही गर्न सम्बन्धित निकायसँग माग गर्दछ । Written By Federation of Nepali Journalists Media Village, Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal Telephone: +977 01 449 0063/ 493 873/ 447 8235 Comments Resources - Media Freedom in Sri Lanka- 2020 09/24/2021 Download - Chasing Justice : Study on impunity for crimes against journalists in Maldives 08/22/2021 Download - IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, August 2021 08/18/2021 Download