Meeting with Ambassador of Canada
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Meeting with Ambassador of Canada
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
The Human Rights Centre at Ghent University is supporting a student initiative to organize an event on (restrictions of) press freedom and other fundamental rights in Turkey. They intend this to be in particular an evening of solidarity with the journalists of the newspaper Cumhuriyet who have been arrested (this came about because one of our students befriended the son of the editor-in-chief of this newspaper during a student exchange programme in Germany, where they organized a similar event). We are hoping that the European Federation of Journalists would be able to provide a speaker at this event. The event takes place on 29…
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…
PACE to discuss reopening full monitoring procedure on functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey