"The International Women’s Media Foundation is pleased to provide grants to support reporting focused on reproductive rights in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. These grants support reporting of untold stories surrounding issues that impact people’s daily lives in the region. A strong preference will be given to multimedia transnational […]
"The Foundation for Press Freedom and the Journalists' Circle of Bogota presented the 'Survey on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information' in which they surveyed 585 journalists and 15 columnists to study the characteristics of the media in which they work, their self-criticism, the environment for freedom of expression, and aggressions towards their work. […]
"The search for the truth, access to justice, comprehensive reparation, and preservation of collective memory are the main lines of action of the initiative 'Tejidos solidarios [Weaving solidarity],' the first national network of relatives of murdered and disappeared journalists in Mexico, presented this Thursday (April 28). After the unprecedented violence against the press in recent […]
"Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro have been promoting yet another disinformation campaign about the January 8 coup acts. This time, the target is photo reporter Adriano Machado, from the Reuters news agency. In addition to trying to blame the current government for acts caused by supporters of the former president, the Bolsonarists are now […]
"Photojournalist Sérgio Silva still had a remnant of hope that the Court of Justice of São Paulo would reconsider its 2017 decision, but that's not what happened. The 9th Chamber of Civil Law unanimously maintained, on Wednesday (April 26), the understanding that the State is not responsible for the shooting by a military police officer […]
"Representatives of the Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Paraguay [Human Rights Coordinator of Paraguay or Codehupy, by its Spanish acronym] and the Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay [Paraguayan Journalists Union] presented [this Wednesday, April 26] in Congress a draft bill that seeks the establishment of an institution to ensure the safety of journalists and human […]
"Another journalist was murdered within 48 hours in Haiti, the most dangerous country in which to practice journalism, according to a preliminary report by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) released Tuesday [April 25]. The body of Ricot Jean, a journalist with Radio-Télé Évolution Inter in Saint-Marc, a town 73 km [45 miles] north of […]
"A court sentenced to 34 years and six months in prison two people accused as material authors of the murder of journalist Gerardo Delgado in October of last year, informed this Monday [April 24] the Ecuadorian Public Prosecutor's Office. 'Based on evidence presented at the trial, the Prosecutor's Office obtained a sentence of 34 years […]
"Periodistas Sin Cadenas Foundation informs the public that another journalist of Ecuadorian nationality has left the country in the face of successive threats against his life and the lack of action on the part of the authorities to guarantee his safety. The victim, whose name will be withheld, has received repeated threats that were brought […]
"UOL network journalist Juliana Dal Piva was acquitted of the decision that convicted her for making public the content of messages sent to her by Frederick Wassef, a lawyer of the Bolsonaro family. The messages included discrediting statements and threats by the lawyer against the journalist. On Thursday (April 20), the Court of Justice of […]