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Ghana: Author Arrested for Critical Comments Against President

Vivian Affoah
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Ghana: Author Arrested for Critical Comments Against President

On September 23, 2016, members of the national security agency in Ghana, the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) arrested Ghanaian-Lebanese Pilot, Author and Writer, Fadi Dabbousi upon his arrival in Ghana from Lebanon.

While the BNI has not released a statement on the arrest, Accra-based Joy FM reports that “Dabbousi was arrested because he has consistently made offensive and scalding comments against President John Mahama in articles.”

Among other things Dabbousi is said to have claimed in one of his articles that Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama had impregnated one of the daughters of a prominent king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

Dabbousi’s lawyer Hassan Tampuli, has indicated his client stands by his claims in his articles. Hassan also said he has been denied access to Dabboussie throughout the period of his  detention. .

After his arrest, the BNI is said to have also ransacked Dabbousi’s home and seized copies of a book he launched recently titled “59 Years of Ghana to Nowhere: The Future Is Now.”

The BNI reportedly returned the books on September 25, 2016. Dabbousi has also been released on bail.

The MFWA finds Fadi Dabbousi’s arrest arbitrary and a violation of his right to freedom of expression. Ghana has decriminalised libel, and so even if Dabbousi has made comments deemed libelous or defamatory, it is illegal to arrest and detain him, more so without a formal charge.

 

Liberia: Journalist Detained for Republishing Story on President of Equatorial Guinea

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Liberia: Journalist Detained for Republishing Story on President of Equatorial Guinea

On September 15, 2016, Festus Poquie, a journalist and editor of New Democrat, newspaper in Monrovia, was arrested and taken to the headquarters of the Liberian National Police where he was detained for several hours before being released.

The MFWA’s national partner in Liberia, the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuiling (CEMESP), reported that Poquie’s detention was as a result of a story republished by his newspaper on September 13, 2016.

The story, originally published by UK-based Daily Mail, contained details of alleged acts of cannibalism by the President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

CEMESP reports the police as saying that Poquie was arrested and detained because his newspaper failed to contact the Government of Equatorial Guinea to verify claims made in the story by Thomas Burrows – the original author of the news story. Poquie was later released following the intervention of the Press Union of Liberia and human rights lawyer Taiwon Gongoloe.

The Liberian Minister of Information, Eugene Lenn Nagbe, is reported to have called for the newspaper to be penalized and made to retract the story.

Meanwhile CEMESP has criticised the action by the Liberian government, contending that the act “undermines all efforts being made towards decriminalizing speech in Liberia.”

The Press Union of Liberia has also condemned Poquoi’s arrest. The Union said that the journalists should not be arrested for culling a story since “it is a normal journalism practice.”

Nigeria: Journalists Union Threatens to Boycott Reportage Following Arrest of Members

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Nigeria: Journalists Union Threatens to Boycott Reportage Following Arrest of Members

The Ebonyi branch of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has threatened to boycott reportage of all activities of the Ebonyi State Police Command.

The Union on September 16, 2016, made the threat following the arrest and detention of two of its members by the Ebonyi State Police Command.

Uchenna Inya, correspondent of the New Telegraph newspaper in Ebonyi State, was arrested and detained by the Police, on September 16, after an alleged tip-off that Inya was writing an article on the 17th anniversary of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, a movement by the people of Biafra state in Nigeria.

According to NUJ, although the article was not published anywhere, the Police arrested Inya and seized his phone and working equipment. He was released after five hours. While Inya has told fellow journalists about his ordeal, the Public Relations Officer of the Ebonyi Police Command has denied the incident, saying the journalist was never arrested.

Another Journalist, Emmanuel Igwe of the National Issue Newspaper was also arrested and detained by the Police for publishing an advertorial indicting the state commissioner of police. Igwe has since petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over the matter.

Condemning the incidents, the National Vice President, South East zone, Chris Isiguzo stressed that the arrest and detention of the journalists was “alien to the norms and practice of true democracy in the country.”

He urged the Police Command to see journalists as partners in progress in the fight against criminality and other social vices in society. While urging the police to respect the work of journalists, he also appealed to journalists to go about their work diligently.

The MFWA joins NUJ in condemning the arrests of the journalists and calls on the Inspector General of Nigerian Police Force, Ibrahim Idris Kpotum to ensure that journalists are safe to do their work and are accorded the respect and assistance they require in their work.

UN Representative for West Africa Acknowledges MFWA’s Work

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UN Representative for West Africa Acknowledges MFWA’s Work

The Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General for West Africa, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has lauded the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) and its campaign language monitoring project.

Speaking at a national colloquium on the security of Ghana’s upcoming elections, the UN envoy told the gathering that a crucial step to take before the election date was to “form an alliance with credible media watchdog institutions, such as the Media Foundation for West Africa, whose monitoring programme publicly exposed violations of good conduct.”

Dr. Chambas also advised political parties to ensure that their communication during this electioneering period is issues based; devoid of insults, invectives and hate speech.

The MFWA, under the project title Promoting Issues-based and Decent Language Campaigning for a Peaceful, Free and Fair Elections in Ghana in 2016, is monitoring 60 radio stations across Ghana aimed at promoting issues-based, decent-language campaigning and peaceful elections.

The project also publicises the names of persons who use abusive language on radio during the electioneering period and their party affiliations. Also named in the project’s periodic reports are the names of the radio stations on which such abusive expressions are used.

 

Nigeria: Journalist Accused of Working With Boko Haram Arrested

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Nigeria: Journalist Accused of Working With Boko Haram Arrested

On September 5, 2016, Nigerian journalist Ahmed Salkida, who has been wanted along with two others by the Nigerian Army over a video from the violent extremist group, Boko Haram, was arrested.

Salkida was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja just after getting off a flight from the Middle East, where he had reportedly been living.

Salkida who was returning to the country having been declared wanted reportedly told someone on the flight that the State Security Service (SSS) was aware of his trip so he was afraid of being arrested.

On August 14, 2016, the Nigerian Army declared Salkida and two others—lawyer Aisha Wakil and activist Ahmed Bolori—“wanted.” The army said it was interested in these three persons because of their alleged connection to Boko Haram.

In a press statement, Colonel Sani Usman, the Acting Director of Army Public Relations, said, “There is no doubt that these individuals have links with Boko Haram Terrorists and have contacts with them. They must therefore come forward and tell us where the group is keeping the Chibok Girls and other abducted persons to enable us rescue them.”

Salkida, who had built and sustained a network of sources within the Boko Haram group, had almost-exclusive access to the group and was for a while, the only journalist who consistently wrote pieces and provided information that other journalists depended on.

“When the crisis broke, I was the only reporter who could go into the sect’s enclave, even security agents were eager to hear from me what I saw when the sect held sway for over three (3) days,” Ahmed once said in an interview with blogger, Abang Mercy.

Reports indicate that he has admitted to receiving two video clips from Boko Haram before the group released the said videos to the public. Salkida has however denied any involvement with Boko Haram.

Salkida was released on September 6, after being interrogated without his lawyer.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is not certain about Salkida’s involvement with Boko Haram but will continue to highlight new developments in his case.

Ghana: Journalist Assaulted and Detained by Policemen

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A journalist from the Daily Express newspaper, Fred Sarpong has been arrested and detained for taking pictures of a policeman who was allegedly receiving a GH¢ 5 bribe from a bus driver.

The incident occurred at Tesano in Accra in the afternoon of September 5, 2016.

Raphael Apetorgbor, Sarpong’s colleague who witnessed the incident, said they saw a bus driver in a pleading posture before a motor traffic policeman. According to Apetorgbor, due to public perception that such encounters between drivers and policemen often result in the policemen taking a bribe, Sarpong got his camera ready to take a picture in case that happens. He was however unlucky as other police officers at the scene, noticed him trying to take a picture.

The police officers reportedly assaulted Sarpong and whisked him to the Tesano police station in Accra where he was detained for hours and later released after the incident was widely publicised.

The MFWA condemns the wanton attack and arbitrary detention of Fred Sarpong by the police officers. We call on the police authorities to sanction the officers involved in the abuse of the rights of the journalist.

53 Top Radio Presenters Adopt Resolution to Promote Peaceful Elections

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53 Top Radio Presenters Adopt Resolution to Promote Peaceful Elections

Fifty-three leading radio presenters and programme hosts from some of Ghana’s most influential radio stations have adopted a six-point resolution to promote issues-based and peaceful elections through their respective radio programmes.

The adoption of the resolution is the result of engagements with the influential radio programme presenters by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) as part of the organisation’s project that seeks to promote issues-based and decent language campaigning for peaceful elections.

Some of the journalists adopted the resolution at a forum which was chaired by Prof. Kofi Agyekum popularly called Opanin Agyekum of the University of Ghana. Present at that forum were also the Director of Political Affairs at the ECOWAS Commission Dr. Remi Ajebewa and the Head of democracy and good governance at the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Eyesan Okorodudu.

“It’s great to have the most influential people on radio share a common view and recognise their important role in promoting peaceful elections, and more importantly, committing to do so. I feel really inspired by the action of these distinguished programme presenters and commend them for this bold, exemplary action,” said Sulemana, Executive Director of the MFWA.

Below is the six-point resolution and the list of programme presenters and hosts who have signed up:

Resolution

By Radio Presenters and Hosts from Leading Radio Stations in Ghana

We, radio presenters and hosts of programmes from leading radio stations across Ghana, mindful of the current context of the media landscape and the critical role of the media and journalists in promoting peaceful elections in Ghana through professional and issues-based programming and reporting unanimously adopt and commit to this Resolution:

  1. Recognising the important role of the media in promoting credible and peaceful elections, we will at all times abide by the ethics of the journalism profession and ensure the highest possible standards in our day-to-day practice
  1. We commit to ensuring that our respective programmes and media platforms are not used as platforms for insults and abusive campaigning by political actors and all others who appear on our networks in person, on the telephone and via social media platforms
  1. We call on political parties to orient their communicators who use the media for campaigning to be decorous and focus on issues rather than personality attacks
  1. We urge colleague presenters and hosts to desist from acts that could contribute to compromising the credibility and peaceful conduct of the December general elections
  1. We urge all stakeholders in the electoral process to be professional, impartial, fair and firm in the discharge of their roles and responsibilities at all times
  1. We further urge all stakeholders to respect the rights of journalists in the discharge of their duties and help guarantee the safety of journalists during the electoral process

This resolution is also in the spirit of a meeting for radio presenters and programme hosts convened on July 29, 2016 by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) at the Coconut Grove Hotel in Accra.

The meeting, which discussed, among other things, the role of programme hosts and presenters in curbing the use of abusive language on the airwaves, was presided over by Prof. Kofi Agyekum of the University of Ghana. Also in attendance were the National Media Commission (NMC), the Director of Political Affairs at the ECOWAS Commission, and Head of Division, Democracy and Governance at the ECOWAS Commission.

Adopted in Accra, Ghana, this Friday, 2nd day of September 2016.

 Endorsed by:

Name:                                                                    Radio Station

  1. Philip Asiawo                                                      Radio Universe
  2. George Asekere                                                   GBC Radio
  3. Bernard Koku Avle                                             Citi FM
  4. Kojo Yankson                                                       Joy FM
  5. Clifford Ofosu                                                       Hot FM
  6. Prince Minkah                                                      Class FM
  7. Bernard Nasara Saibu                                         Starr FM
  8. Salihu Shuaibu Sarawta                                      Marhaba FM
  9. Samuel Amankwah                                              Happy FM
  10. Samuel Ablordeppey                                            Radio Gold
  11. Kwame Tutu                                                          Rainbow Radio
  12. Kwami Sefa-Kayi                                                 Peace FM
  13. Kwabena Kwakye                                                 Oman FM
  14. Felix Van Der Pallen                                            Radio XYZ
  15. Kwame Karikari                                                   Onua FM
  16. Nana Yaw Kesseh                                                 Peace FM
  17. Chief Jerry Forson                                               Accra FM
  18. Kwame Nkrumah Tikese                                    Okay FM
  19. Kwaku Owusu Adjei                                            Kasapa FM
  20. Kwesi Aboagye                                                     Neat FM
  21. Ofori Ayim                                                            Atinka FM
  22. Frank Eshun                                                         Top FM
  23. Umaru Sanda Amadu                                         Citi FM
  24. Bright Kwesi Asempa Tsadidey                        Onua FM
  25. Afia Pokua                                                             Adom FM
  26. Kwaku Kyeremanteng Nkansah                      Fox FM
  27. Ohene Amankwah-Gyan                                   Kessben FM
  28. Kwame Tanko                                                     Angel FM
  29. Nhyiraba Ismail Gyamfi                                   Ashh FM
  30. Alhassan Jibril                                                    Cruz FM
  31. David Akuetteh                                                   Luv FM
  32. Abdulai Tahiru Yampasia                                 Eagle FM
  33. Mashood Mahama                                             Eagle FM
  34. Abubakr Adam                                                    Radio Zaa
  35. Yaro Ismail                                                           Might FM
  36. Sulemana Abubakari Sadiq                               North Star
  37. Mohammed Ibn Abdallah                                  Diamond FM
  38. Iddrisu Awudu                                                      Winners FM
  39. Kumberso Peter Mensah                                    Classic FM
  40. Nana Owoahene Acheampong                          Royals FM
  41. Nana Darkwa                                                       Obuoba FM
  42. Collins Nii Lamptey Kwao                                 Rite FM
  43. Emmanuel A. Awhireng                                     Radio Peace
  44. Abdul Hameed Amponsah                                Radio Peace
  45. Kwame Choco                                                      Ahomka FM
  46. Israel Abotsivia                                                    Kekeli Radio
  47. Geoffrey Gah-Mensah                                        Lorlornyo FM
  48. Michael Avorgah                                                 Holy FM
  49. Edem Muttah Nyasorgbor                                Radio Jubilee
  50. Albert Azongo                                                      Radio A1
  51. Daniel Dadzie                                                       Skyy Power
  52. Annaakaa Waris                                                   Radio Progress
  53. Mohammed Balu Salia                                       Radford FM

International Day on Enforced Disappearance: MFWA Remembers Disappeared Gambian Journalist

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International Day on Enforced Disappearance: MFWA Remembers Disappeared Gambian Journalist

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) joins the world today August 30 to remember victims of enforced disappearances.

Today, the MFWA remembers in particular the disappeared Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh.

Manneh, a journalist with the then-pro-government Daily Observer newspaper, was arrested on July 7, 2006 by officers from The Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) at his office in Banjul.

Manneh was arrested both for passing “damaging” information to a BBC journalist during an African Union meeting in Addis Ababa and for trying to republish a BBC story criticising President Yahya Jammeh’s coup to power. During the year following his arrest, Manneh was spotted multiple times within various prisons and detention centres, as he was transferred many times. He was also seen with paramilitary officers at a hospital after being reportedly treated for blood pressure.

To date, the government has denied having arrested and taken Manneh into custody and the journalist is yet to be found.

The United Nations has emphasised that “enforced disappearance has frequently been used as a strategy to spread terror within the society. The feeling of insecurity generated by this practice is not limited to the close relatives of the disappeared, but also affects their communities and society as a whole.” Indeed after Manneh’s disappearance, many journalists in The Gambia increasingly feared for their lives.

In 2007, the MFWA filed a civil suit at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice to seek justice for Manneh and his family. Not only did the government of The Gambia fail to make an appearance in Court but it also tried to kidnap one of the witnesses against the state. On March 10, 2008, Yahya Dampha, a Gambian journalist who was a witness in the Manneh case and who had been persecuted into fleeing to neighbouring Senegal, escaped a kidnapping attempt by three suspected NIA agents. At that time, Dampha told the MFWA that he sought the help of his neighbours upon recognition of one Habib Drammeh, a known NIA operative attached to President Yahya Jammeh’s office. Upon his neighbours’ intervention, the would-be abductors fled. Dampha also told the MFWA that prior to the attempt, he had received a number of threatening phone calls.

A few months later on June 5, 2008, the ECOWAS Court found The Gambia guilty of disappearing Manneh and ordered the government to release the journalist, and pay him US$100,000 in damages.

Eight years on, Manneh’s whereabouts remain unknown and the Gambian government has failed to pay any compensation, in violation of its obligations under the Revised ECOWAS Treaty. The MFWA continues to appeal to ECOWAS to ensure that The Gambia complies with the ruling of the ECOWAS Court in accordance with its obligations as a member of ECOWAS. We also call on ECOWAS and all states in West Africa to prioritize the issue of safety of journalists, by investigating, prosecuting and remedying cases of enforced disappearance. Finally, we urge all states in West Africa to respect, protect and fulfil people’s rights to freedom of expression, including press freedom, and to cease persecuting individuals for exercising this right.

 

Togo: Security Forces Brutally Suppress Peaceful Protest by Locals

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Togo: Security Forces Brutally Suppress Peaceful Protest by Locals

Scores of indigenes of a Togolese community protesting against the activities of a new phosphate mining company on their land have been injured in a brutal intervention by security forces.

The incident occurred on August 22, 2016 at Abobo-Zéglé, some twenty kilometres North-East of the capital, Lome.

The MFWA’s sources say the community has been asked by government to evacuate their homes to resettle at a new place: a bare land with no structures, water or electricity.

“They are dislodging us from our ancestral village in the name of phosphate mining. But they have not provided the necessary facilities at the new site,” Komivi Adékpuivi, an influential figure in the village told journalists.

According to Adékpuivi, anytime authorities promised to meet them to discuss their concerns, they (authorities) did not show up.  “Meanwhile, they are mining right under the foundations of our buildings and raining dust on us,” he added.

Led by their local council leaders, the people therefore organised a peaceful march to draw attention to their plight. However, the security forces went to the scene and descended on the protestors with tear gas and rubber bullets. The security forces reportedly did not limit their brutality to the demonstration grounds as they fired some into people’s homes. This resulted in a melee in which scores were injured either by being trampled on or by the tear gas and bullets.

The injured were later hospitalised and treated.

The MFWA condemns the brutal repression of a peaceful march by vulnerable locals who were only exercising their constitutional right to peaceful assembly. We call on the authorities to investigate the matter and ensure that the victims have redress.

Mauritania: 13 Anti-Slavery Activists Jailed

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Thirteen anti-slavery activists in Mauritania have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to fifteen years in prison in a suspected crackdown on anti-slavery activity.

The court found the 13 people, all members of the human rights group, Initiative pour la Resurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste (IRA) guilty on August 19, 2016 of counts including “rebellion, use of violence, attacks against the government, armed assembly and membership of an unrecognised organisation.” Three of the accused were sentenced to 15 years each, eight to 5 years and while the remaining two were given a two years each.

The judgment has been condemned by human rights organisations as an attempt to intimidate anti-slavery campaigners.

The activists were without lawyers at the time of their sentencing as their lawyers boycotted the sitting on August 17 in protest of an alleged torture of their clients and unfair proceedings.

The IRA leaders including vice presidents, Brahim Ramdane and Diop Amadou Tidjane as well as Secretary for External Relations, Balla Touré, were arrested in their homes between June and early July after the government accused them of being involved in violent protests against the state by evicted locals in Ksar, a slum community in the capital, Nouakchott.

The convicted activists have denied this and said although their organisation openly opposed the eviction exercise of the settlers in Ksar, they were not part of the demonstration. They have described their sentencing as “crackdown on their anti-slavery activities.”

As slavery implicates both the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, the MFWA equally considers the sentencing of the anti-slavery activists as an attempt to restrict freedom of expression and association and also to frustrate the work of anti-slavery activists in Mauritania. Although Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1981 and it criminalised in 2007, modern-day slavery is still practiced and widespread in Mauritania where members of the Haratin or “slave caste” are forced by their masters to do menial, unpaid jobs as cattle herders and domestic servants.

Last year, the government passed a law that doubled prison terms for practicing slavery. In November 2015, after Mauritania’s Universal Periodic Review, the state accepted recommendations to promote human rights and increase awareness-raising campaigns on the prohibition of slavery. The state also accepted to expand public awareness campaigns against slavery. Critics however say there has been little practical commitment to ending the menace, as few offenders have been prosecuted, despite the open and widespread practice of slavery. The state has however consistently been hostile to anti-slavery activists and the recent sentencing of the 13 anti-slavery activists is proof of the state’s unwillingness to end slavery.

We call on the authorities in Mauritania to release the IRA activists and encourage dialogue and collaboration in the fight against slavery.

 

Funding Opportunity for Journalists for SDGs Reporting: Best Story Gets Additional US$1000

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Funding Opportunity for Journalists for SDGs Reporting: Best Story Gets Additional US$1000

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme  (UNDP), Ghana, is offering funding opportunity to Ghanaian journalists for the production and publication of stories on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

About 15 stories will be financially supported and the overall best story will be awarded an additional US$1000.

The initiative forms part of MFWA’s project: ‘Mainstreaming the SDGs in Development Reporting.’

The project seeks to increase the awareness and knowledge of journalists on the SDGs and promote their incorporation in development reporting for social change.

As part of the project, 30 selected journalists from across the country will participate in a 2-day training workshop on August 23 and 24, 2016.

The training is expected to enhance participant’s knowledge of the SDG’s and improve their capacity to produce professional stories promoting SDGs stories.

For more information on the project and how to apply for funding for the stories production, click here or write to [email protected].

 

Train Police to Protect Journalists’ Safety, Stop Violent Extremism – MFWA

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Train Police to Protect Journalists’ Safety, Stop Violent Extremism – MFWA

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has recommended training for police and other security forces that is focused on protecting the safety of journalists, as part of efforts to prevent violent extremism (PVE) and countering violent extremism (CVE).

The MFWA also called for accountability, particularly prosecutions, for crimes against journalists in order to enable journalists to feel safe about reporting on sensitive topics, including violent extremism.

These recommendations were part of the MFWA’s submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) in line with the UN organ’s compilation of best practices and lessons on how upholding human rights can contribute to PVE and CVE.

The submission expressed great concern that police and other security forces regularly violate the right to freedom of expression especially press freedom rights. The persistence of crimes against journalists, impunity and acts of censorship prevents—even precludes—the media from performing its duty as a provider of information. For example, in Nigeria last year, the military attacked the media for reporting on the role of international assistance in Nigeria’s CVE strategy against Boko Haram. The attack led to widespread self-censorship among the media with regard to reportage on the anti-Boko Haram war.

The MFWA made five major recommendations to the OHCHR:

  1. PVE and CVE strategists should understand the promotion of freedom of expression, including press freedom, as more than just a tool of PVE and CVE programming and efforts.
  2. Police and other security forces must receive human rights training, particularly on the need to respect and protect freedom of expression, including press freedom, and the safety of journalists.
  3. States should take steps to end impunity for crimes against journalists and the media generally. The lack of accountability, particularly prosecutions, for crimes against journalists creates a culture of impunity, facilitates future attacks and pushes journalists to self-censor on a range of topics, including violent extremism.
  4. States should build the capacity of journalists and the media to report on issues related to violent extremism, which entails creating an enabling environment for the media to perform its functions.
  5. The media must behave with increased professionalism, which will facilitate its ability to support and educate the public on PVE and CVE programming and efforts.

Click here for the full submission by the MFWA. OHCHR’s Compilation Report is a collection of best practices on how to combat violent extremism as part of the UN High Commissioner’s Action Plan on the issue. The report, which draws on inputs such as ours, will be released in September 2016.

 

 

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