Access Now is proud to bring you the sixth installment of RightsCon, the world’s leading event on the future of the internet. Together we are shaping the global conversation about how to keep the internet open, free, and secure.RightsCon Silicon Valley 2016,brought together more than 1,100 attendees from 84 countries and more than 500 organizations. This upcoming March in Brussels, Belgium we’re gathering the global digital rights community in the heart of European politics and policymaking to host our most impactful RightsCon yet. This year’s program themes will include: Freedom of Expression: circumvention, the latest in media and journalism, internet…
Short presentation by speakers followed by moderated open discussion. Welcome and moderation Nicola Frank, EBU Head of European Affairs Ricardo Gutiérrez, EFJ Secretary-General Speakers Simon Wilson – BBC News Editor, Europe Bureau – How BBC's Newsround explains Fake News to children Eric Scherer - Director of Future Media at France Televisions – Action Plan to fight fake news André Wolf (TBC) – Author at Mimikama, Austria – The Fake Hunters Tanja Fajon MEP (TBC) – former journalist and member of the EP Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Inder Burgarin - Mexican journalist Giles Portman (TBC) - Head…
Monitoring and solutions at EU level 18h30 - 18h45 Welcome address and introductory remarks Curzio Maltese, MEP 18h45 - 20.00 Moderator: Giovanni Melogli, Alliance Internationale de Journalistes Pier Luigi Parcu, Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom Alina Ostling, Research Associate at Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom Roman Imielski, News editor, Gazeta Wyborcza Ricardo Guitierrez, General Secretary of European Federation of Journalists Krisztina Stump - Deputy Head of Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission 20h- 20h30 Q&A Session
Date: Thursday, 30th March 2017 Time: 11:00 – 13:00 Venue: European Parliament, Room: A5E-2 - Spinelli You are cordially invited to our panel discussion where the challenges of journalists, academicians, judiciary and civil society members will be shared at the European Parliament. There is no universal consensus for the definition of democracy, but the democratic principles hardly vary throughout the world. Justice, equality, freedom and representation are deemed to be the four pillars of democracy. In fact, these principles act as a litmus test for distinguishing democratic regimes from authoritarian regimes. Democracy can be applied through various mechanisms such as…
Three international media literacy workshops will take place in 2017 (in Austria, Poland and Germany), organised by CMFE and COMMIT. The workshops will target community media practitioners, journalists, journalism schools and trainers, media regulatory bodies/authorities, press councils, civil society organisations (in particular migrants’/women’s organisations) and have the following objectives: Mutual learning and cooperation activities as instruments for sharing concrete best practices transferable to different legal contexts, that are likely to increase efficient prevention of discrimination/hate speech, in particular against women journalists, refugees and migrants. Development of counter-narratives through multilingual programs / campaigns fighting stereotypes and populism, taking creative examples from a local/small-scale to a broader context.…
The purpose is to have an exchange of information on collective agreements in the creative sectors and the challenges creators may face in relation to collective bargaining as a tool to improve their remuneration conditions. This should help the European Commission to gain a better insight into concrete situations faced by creators and possibilities that can be explored in terms of collective action, also against the background of the findings of recent European Commission's studies on the fair remuneration of authors and performers.
Presentation on Cross-border journalism and EFJ for Journalismfund.eu at Mechelen (Belgium)
The international conference is organized by Journalist Media Group in the Academy of Public Economy, in Moscow. The vice-president of the EFJ Nadezda Azhgikhina and the EFJ Director Renate Schroeder will attend the conference.
Creative Skills Europe Project Accompanying the transformations of the market and of individual careers in the European audiovisual and live performance sectors: a social dialogue perspective. A European partnership project (Feb. 2017 – Jan. 2019) Trade unions and management of the EU social dialogue committees on live performance (LP) and the audiovisual sector (AV) have conversations on the developments affecting the sector and the implications of those developments for social dialogue for many years already, and skills development in the AV and LP sectors has a prominent place on the work programme of both committees. The evolutions of the sector…
ECPMF, OBCT, SEEMO and EFJ are organising an important fact-finding mission to Skopje, Macedonia. The EFJ will be represented by its General Secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez. The mission will focus on the recent attacks/violence against journalists, which are, to our knowledge, often not investigated. There will be a press meeting to release a first statement on Friday, 28th, at 10am. Background information: IREX Media Sustainability Report (2017) on Macedonia: https://www.irex.org/sites/default/files/pdf/media-sustainability-index-europe-eurasia-2017-full.pdf (p. 63-76) FreedomHouse Report (2016) (https://freedomhouse.org/country/macedonia). CPJ article: https://cpj.org/blog/2017/04/in-macedonia-anti-press-rhetoric-leaves-journalist.php#more The 9 alerts on Macedonia submitted to the CoE Platform for the Protection of Journalism and the Safety of Journalists; The news on Macedonia…
The EFJ General Secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez will attend several meetings in Skopje, Macedonia, in the framework of the AJM-EFJ project "Journalists' Network for Media Freedom in Macedonia".
PACE to discuss reopening full monitoring procedure on functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey
525th Plenary Session including the following events: Debate with Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist nominated for the 2016 Sakharov Prize, on Wednesday 26 April at 3 p.m. Debate with Professor Dusan Sidjanski, honorary chairman of the European Cultural Centre, on Wednesday 26 April at 4.30 p.m. Debate with Maroš Šefčovič, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Energy Union, on Thursday 27 April at 10.30 a.m.
In times of political gambling, minorities become the scapegoating target of populist leaders. In name of the freedom of expression, racist discourses are legitimised by the electorate choice of right-wing representation in the structures of power. Although some discourses are becoming obsolete, media magnifies the stereotypes and can influence the negative perceptions largely and inaccurately promoted and which is yet reinforced by strong political discourse. But (new) media can also be an instrument for mobilization, participation and change. How is media helping to build democracy and a new narrative for Europe? And how to tackle hate speech, racism and underrepresentation…
INVITATION PRESS BRIEFING Documentaire et débat sur la liberté d'expression et des médias en Turquie Documentary and debate on freedom of expression and medias on Turkey FEJ - Fédération européenne des journalistes / EFJ - European Federation of Journalists en collaboration avec l'UER - Union européenne de radio-télévision in cooperation with EBU - European Broadcasting Union cordially invite invitent cordialement pour documentaire Erdogan ou l'ivresse du pouvoir suivi d'un débat avec / followed by a debate with : Welcoming - Intro : 17:45 : Jean-Paul Philippot, President EBU-UER 18:00 : Documentaire - Documentary (en français, subtitled…
Rising populism in the U.S. and Europe, amid concerns over terrorism and migration, pose risks to press freedom in the West and beyond. Join the Committee to Protect Journalists for a look at the challenges journalists face in the changing environment for media in the U.S. and Europe, and the potential ramifications for journalists operating in repressive countries around the world. Advanced registration is not necessary. Panelists to include: Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists Andrew Stroehlein, European Media Director, Human Rights Watch Shada Islam, Director of Policy, Friends of Europe Jean-Paul Marthoz, journalist, teacher and author of…