Reporters Without Borders Videoconference March 12 2009
March 12 2009 — Online Free Expression Day.
The Halifax Regional C@P Association will be hosting a live video conference with Katherine Borlongan, Executive Director of Reporters Sans Frontieres Canada.
Come have coffee with us at theHubHalifax or join in the Skype video call from your C@P site. The video conversation begins at 10am Atlantic and will be followed by a question and answer period.
Everyone is invited.
About Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has fought for press freedom on a daily basis since it was founded in 1985.
Reporters Without Borders:
- defends journalists and media assistants imprisoned or persecuted for doing their job and exposes the mistreatment and torture of them in many countries.
- fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom.
- gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists.
- works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.
Reporters Without Borders is present in all five continents through its national branches (in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), its offices in New York, Tokyo and Washington, and the more than 120 correspondents it has in other countries. In 2005, the organization won the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Reporters Without Borders has Consultant Status at the United Nations.
Who is Katherine Borlongan ?
Having grown up in the Philippines a country plagued by the alarming recurrence of extrajudicial killings of political opponents and journalists, Katherine Borlongan has long been responsive to the defense of free expression. As a scholar of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she completed her university studies in Political Science at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, focusing on social movements, the new media and its role in the construction of democracy. Since then, she has worked as for several NGOs in South-East Asia specialized in micro-finance and human rights development. She was nominated as Managing Director of Reporters Without Borders Canada in 2008.
Online Free Expression Day
To denounce government censorship of the Internet and to demand more online freedom, Reporters Without Borders is calling on Internet users to come and protest in online versions of nine countries that are Internet enemies during the 24 hours from 11 a.m. tomorrow, 12 March, to 11 a.m. on 13 March (Paris time, GMT +1).
Anyone with Internet access will be able to create an avatar, choose a message for their banner and take part in one of the cyber-demos taking place in Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, North Korea, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.
There are 15 countries in this year’s Reporters Without Borders list of “Internet Enemies” - Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. There were only 13 in 2007. The two new additions to the traditional censors are both to be found in sub-Saharan Africa: Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
Reporters Without Borders also publishes the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents which you can download for free here.
The Halifax Regional C@P Association will be hosting a live video conference with Katherine Borlongan, Executive Director of Reporters Sans Frontieres Canada.
Come have coffee with us at theHubHalifax or join in the Skype video call from your C@P site. The video conversation begins at 10am Atlantic and will be followed by a question and answer period.
Everyone is invited.
About Reporters Without BordersReporters Without Borders has fought for press freedom on a daily basis since it was founded in 1985.
Reporters Without Borders:
- defends journalists and media assistants imprisoned or persecuted for doing their job and exposes the mistreatment and torture of them in many countries.
- fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom.
- gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists.
- works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.
Reporters Without Borders is present in all five continents through its national branches (in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), its offices in New York, Tokyo and Washington, and the more than 120 correspondents it has in other countries. In 2005, the organization won the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Reporters Without Borders has Consultant Status at the United Nations.
Who is Katherine Borlongan ?
Having grown up in the Philippines a country plagued by the alarming recurrence of extrajudicial killings of political opponents and journalists, Katherine Borlongan has long been responsive to the defense of free expression. As a scholar of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she completed her university studies in Political Science at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, focusing on social movements, the new media and its role in the construction of democracy. Since then, she has worked as for several NGOs in South-East Asia specialized in micro-finance and human rights development. She was nominated as Managing Director of Reporters Without Borders Canada in 2008.
Online Free Expression DayTo denounce government censorship of the Internet and to demand more online freedom, Reporters Without Borders is calling on Internet users to come and protest in online versions of nine countries that are Internet enemies during the 24 hours from 11 a.m. tomorrow, 12 March, to 11 a.m. on 13 March (Paris time, GMT +1).
Anyone with Internet access will be able to create an avatar, choose a message for their banner and take part in one of the cyber-demos taking place in Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, North Korea, Tunisia, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.
There are 15 countries in this year’s Reporters Without Borders list of “Internet Enemies” - Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. There were only 13 in 2007. The two new additions to the traditional censors are both to be found in sub-Saharan Africa: Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
Reporters Without Borders also publishes the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents which you can download for free here.
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