The IFEX Campaigns and Advocacy Support Programme aims to foster collaboration, provide training and advice, and deepen commitment to addressing free expression violations and issues among the IFEX membership. 
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SRI LANKA: IFEX MEMBERS CALL FOR UN ACTION
24 June 2008 - Alarmed by statements from Sri Lankan authorities threatening journalists,
31 IFEX members and partners signed a joint letter on 20 June asking for
United Nations action. The letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
initiated by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), says the
statements "put journalists in grave danger."
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Sri Lanka: Joint Action by IFEX Members Incites Government
Action
May-July 2008 - Sri Lanka has long been considered one of the
most dangerous countries in the world for practising journalists. In
early 2008 this already perilous situation escalated, with the media
suffering increasing cases of intimidation – by the government itself.
Commentaries published on 5 June on the Defence Ministry website called
journalists critical of government action "enemies of the state" and
specifically criticised IFEX member Free Media Movement (FMM). This
climate was further pronounced by almost weekly violent incidents
against the media. (Photo courtesy of FMM)
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China Olympics 2008
9 July 2008 - One hundred journalists and cyber-dissidents still
in jail. Foreign journalists blocked and threatened despite Beijing's
repeated promises to give them "complete freedom" ahead of the Olympics.
Ongoing censorship online and elsewhere.
With just one month left to the Beijing Games, IFEX members are asking
that you turn up the heat and speak up for free expression in China.
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Add your voice to the protests:
- Boycott the opening ceremonies
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is continuing to call on world leaders and heads of state to boycott
the opening ceremonies. RSF is urging you to turn away from your TV and
march outside Chinese embassies on 8 August.
More: http://www.rsf.org
- Appeal for the release of the Chinese "POC
(Prisoners of Conscience) 8" before 08/08/08
RSF, along
with IFEX members the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have joined the global
appeal for the release of the Chinese "POC 8" before 08/08/08 - the day of
the opening ceremonies.
More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DmnlIJlJU Download ready-made
letters:
http://www.visual-artists-guild.org/
- Follow the poem
instead of the torch
With International PEN's poem relay: hear the poem "June" by Shi Tao,
translated into more than 90 languages, including Tibetan
More:
http://www.penpoemrelay.org/
- Check out
International PEN's "We Are Ready for Freedom of Expression" campaign
Read up on all of the 44 journalists and writers in jail, sign the
petition to the Chinese government calling for their release
More:
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1527
- Get tips and
tricks on how to report in Beijing
IFJ has teamed up with the sports political organisation Play the Game to
launch Play the Game for Open Journalism, a website for those reporters
heading to China who don't know how freely they'll be able to do their
job.
More:
http://www.playthegameforopenjournalism.org
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