Human Rights
MIDEAST: When You Shoot the MessengerPosted: 2008-07-04 |
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By Mel Frykberg GAZA CITY, Jul 3 (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it. |
Right to Communication Non-Existent in Turkey?Posted: 2008-06-25 |
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By Ilnur Cevik [*The New Anatolian] The Turkish constitution specifies in very clear terms that citizens will enjoy freedom of travel and communications. However, in practice this article of the constitution has been violated systematically in Turkey both by state institutions and even by private persons. |
MEDIA-SINGAPORE: Restrictions Following Critics to CyberspacePosted: 2008-06-06 |
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By Lin Quan Zhong SINGAPORE, Jun 6 (Asia Media Forum) – When Lee Hsien Loong became Singapore’s prime minister after his father, Lee Kwan Yew, four years ago, he encouraged citizens to “feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different”. Today, these hopes for a city-state that can be more relaxed about criticism and more open to frank debate appear to have been too high. |
MEDIA: Another Journalist 'Silenced' in PakistanPosted: 2008-05-30 |
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By Shaheen Buneri PESHAWAR, May 23 — In a fresh row of violence unidentified assailants Thursday killed Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, a senior TV journalist while he was returning to his home town after interviewing Moulvi Omar, spokesman of Pakistan Taliban Movement in Pakistan Bajaur Tribal Agency. |
SOUTH ASIA: Differing on Right to InformationPosted: 2008-05-14 |
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By Kalinga Seneviratne DHAKA, May 14 (IPS) - The right to information (RTI), as espoused by the United Nations and international human rights organisations, does not have full endorsement from South Asian media practitioners and scholars. |
BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit AreasPosted: 2008-05-14 |
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 13 (IPS) - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta. |
JAPAN: Broadcasters Break Hanging Secrecy TaboosPosted: 2008-05-13 |
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By Catherine Makino TOKYO, May 12 (IPS) - The final seconds in the life of a Japanese death row inmate -- the rasping muffled last words, the trapdoor springing open, the whip of a noose and a Buddhist gong signalling the end -- has made radio history here, waking listeners up to what goes on in one of the most secretive execution systems in the world. |
PAKISTAN: Caught Between State and Non-State ActorsPosted: 2008-05-06 |
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By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, May 5 (IPS) - "My captivity only brought honour upon me," is how journalist Suhail Qalandar sees his ordeal at the hands of kidnappers last year. He was talking with IPS over the phone from Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province. |
FIJI: Aussie Journo Expelled on Press Freedom Day EvePosted: 2008-05-06 |
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By Shailendra Singh SUVA, May 5 (IPS) - Fiji’s interim government has come under withering criticism both nationally and internationally for the deportation on Friday of the Australian publisher of the leading ‘Fiji Times’ daily, Evan Hannah. |
MEDIA-ASIA: More Than Just FreedomPosted: 2008-05-06 |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, May 2 (IPS) - More than gaining the freedom to report on society’s problems Asian media must gauge it’s real contribution to the public‘s needs, especially at a time of increasing commercialisation. |
