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Conduct the first world study of “insult laws" that shield authorities from press scrutiny and a 2006 update of such laws. A brief overview of the earlier publication "Hiding from the People" is available in English and Spanish. WPFC also produced a unique model
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Propose and administer the first joint program by world free press groups to provide local lawyers for journalists facing prosecution in national courts, through a Fund Against Censorship.
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Coordinate joint activities for a front line grouping 9 major global free press organizations, the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations.
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following the retirement of its Executive Director Mark Bench. Its World Watch of Journalists in Prison does not appear to have been updated since 2009.
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Provide essential legal arguments to win the first decision by an international human rights court saying mandatory licensing of journalists violates
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and surveillance by repressive regimes It's A Crime: How Insult Laws Stifle Press Freedom and Does China Hope to Remap the Internet in its Own Image.
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Present a study showing how restrictive principles in generally beneficial human rights conventions can be used to hobble journalists and news media.
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currently being used by lawyers around the world to assist journalists and media under legal attack for doing their jobs. The
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to beat back authoritarian proposals for a restrictive "new world information and communication order", the WPFC went on to:
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Conduct international conferences in 2003 (New York) and 2007 (Paris) to combat controls on news content in the
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Present the first world survey of journalism training opportunities for developing journalists.
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World Press Freedom Committee has done internet training for journalists’ in countries such as
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Produce the first surveys of practical needs of emerging free press outlets in the former
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Present an exposition of the case that press freedom is a motor for economic development.
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brief is available free of charge to demonstrate to courts that insult laws violate the
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It may require cleanup to comply with Knowledge (XXG)'s content policies, particularly
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Produce 56 publications, including the first regionally oriented general journalism
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Work in intergovernmental forums to extend press freedom principles of traditional
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Originally created to wage an eventually successful global struggle in and around
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Set out the first analysis New Code Words for Censorship of post-Cold War
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and similar handbooks in English and French for African journalists.
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Princeton University Library, World Press Freedom Committee
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has subscribed. It's available in both English and Spanish.
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in local languages for journalists of the Caribbean and
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Press Freedom on the Internet and New Media Conference.
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Monitor Freedom of the press|press freedom]] issues at
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World Press Freedom CommitteeObjectives and Mission:
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