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The Integrity Award was developed to recognize and build awareness of the need to protect the rights of "whistleblowers." The recipients of this award are individuals who have acted courageously in the public interest without thought of personal gain, and in doing so risked reprisals in the form of
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The Fund provides financial assistance to journalists and their families whose lives are at risk or whose freedom of expression has been seriously infringed. Examples of fundable expenses are medical costs arising from imprisonment or physical mistreatment, legal costs arising from action taken in
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CJFE operates the Journalists in Distress Fund for the benefit of working journalists in defence of democracy, human rights, justice and freedom of expression. The fund exists primarily to encourage freedom of expression and the practice of journalism, and to provide humanitarian assistance to
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Among other cases, the Journalists in Distress Fund has provided emergency assistance to a trio of persecuted Ethiopian journalists who fled to Kenya; a Thai journalist who, after recovering from a shooting, required money to continue publication of his newspaper; and the wife and child of a
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The Vox Libera Award is given to a non-journalist who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the principles of free expression and who has had made an important and sustained contribution - at home or abroad - to those same principles.
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while in the custody of security forces in the region. Moved to action by this violence against their southern counterparts, the CIJ agreed to form a special committee to campaign against the kidnapping,
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in this country or elsewhere. The award is named after the Canadian journalist and editor of the Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian Times who was assassinated in November 1998.
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Press Freedom Award honours a Canadian journalist who, through his or her work, has made an important contribution to reinforcing and promoting the principle of
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the courts against journalists because of their reporting as well as emergency travel costs so that journalists and their families can escape persecution.
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A few years later, the group changed its name to the Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists and, with it, began to work in other parts of the world.
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throughout the world. CJFE recognizes that these rights are not confined to journalists and strongly supports and defends the broader objective of
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who overcome great odds to report the news. Past award winners include Tunisian journalist and human rights activist
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CJFE was established in 1981, and parented initially by the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) (now the
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workers throughout Latin America. It was thus that the CIJ Latin American Committee came into being.
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disappeared Belarusian journalist, who was said to have been abducted on orders of the government.
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mandate of the organization - as well as a significant expansion of activities of CJFE both in
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during the early 1980s. From 1979 to 1981, some 150 journalists had been killed or
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Press Freedom Award, the Vox Libera Award, and the Integrity Award.
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One of the principal activities of CJFE is the management of the
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There was another name change - this time to reflect the larger
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threats to their careers, livelihood, or personal freedom.
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journalists whose lives and well-being are threatened.
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Wilkins, Lee; Christians, Clifford G., eds (2009) .
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