Right to Know Day, Brussels, 28th September 2017 Organising parties: ITCO intergroup, supported by Access Info Europe and AntiCor Belgium Mission and objectives: It is our mission to host an event in Brussels that brings together Freedom of Information (FOI) advocates from across Europe. The main objectives of this event will be: To celebrate Right To Know Day which is held on 28th September each year, by raising awareness about the right of access to information and sharing inspiring stories of FOI from around Europe To compare good and bad practices when it comes to Freedom of Information…
DRAFT AGENDA Tour de Table: Ongoing and planned digitalisation initiatives, projects on digitalisation, positions, meetings with relevant DGs or MEPs ETUC-ETUI events: Sharers & Workers, Foresight Seminar ETUC project Workers Participation a key to fair digitalisation Data protection, AI, algorithms New ETUC position on digitalization AOB
TGS-EFJ-IFJ Safety Training for journalists and media workers #JournalismisNOTacrime #GazetecilikSuçDegildir
Threats to journalists and violations of media freedom in Europe are on the increase. They include the wholesale prosecution of journalists in Turkey, frequent attacks on media workers in Hungary, Poland and Ukraine, accreditations withdrawn at the G20 summit in Germany and daily harassment through verbal abuse and hate speech. ECPMF’s one-day conference “Defending journalists under threat” is looking at practical solutions to tackle the many threats journalists are facing today. Participants will discuss legal support to whistle-blowers and their journalistic contacts, safe houses away from home for media workers under threat and the political measures needed to change the current…
Press freedom conference at UGent
http://seemediapartnership.cji.ro 11 NGO representatives from Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Romania
EFJ's Camille Petit will attend the roundtable to present the Media Against Hate project.