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.
Bahrain: IFEX members denounce jailing of activists for expressing their views
6 February 2009 - 20 IFEX members
around the globe expressed grave concern about the deteriorating human rights situation
in the country, demanding the Bahraini government to immediately cease all
aggressions against political and human rights defenders. The group also
denounced travel bans and jailing of activists who expressed their views on
public issues.
Botswana: IFEX members call for review of restrictive media law
3 February 2009 - 28 IFEX members
appealed to the President of Botswana to review the controversial Media
Practitioners Act, which threatens the rights and existence of the media in the
country.
For more member actions, visit the
JOINT ACTIONS
section
Campaign for Sri Lankan Journalist:
Free Tissa Now!
6 March 2009 - One year after Tamil journalist J.S. Tissainayagam
was detained without charge in Sri Lanka, international media rights
organisations remain deeply worried about his continuing detention on
charges of terrorism. Marking the anniversary of his detention on 7 March
2008, the International Press Freedom Mission is calling for the
unconditional release of Tissainayagam, who has been subjected to arbitrary
court adjournments and is suffering ill health.
Watch the video below and
pass along the link to friends. The goal is to have over 100,000 hits on
YouTube.
For more
IFEX-supported campaigns, visit the
CURRENT CAMPAIGNS
section
From the symbols to the
streets, campaigning gets creative in Central Asia
March-April 2009 - Cartoonists and writers raised
awareness of free expression issues in Central Asia by
competing in essay and caricature contests launched by IFEX members and
partners in the region to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.
The third annual contest is part of an advocacy strategy by free
expression organisations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that
has actually revived the disappearing art of editorial cartooning.
On 10 March 2009, free expression activists demonstrated in front of the City Court in the
capital city Almaty to protest the exorbitant fine of 300 000 000 tenge
(approx. $1,989,700 USD) imposed on journalist Almas Kusherbayev for moral
defamation. The brave and
unorthodox decision to organise the protest was the result of a meeting between
newspaper editors and free expression organisations, including Adil Soz.
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