Just five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO’s 2017 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, its government still has not met a regional human rights watchdog’s demands to address press freedom violations in the country’s restive West Papua province. Upon the announcement in July that UNESCO would mark May 3, 2017 with a […]

Spanish journalist Mayte Carrasco spent years covering deadly conflicts across the globe, from Afghanistan to Libya. But it was from the safety of her own home that she faced some of the most vivid threats to her life. Not long after Carrasco published a book based on her coverage of the war in Syria in […]

Im Vorfeld der österreichischen Wahlen zum Bundespräsidenten am 4. Dezember sehen sich die Anhänger eines Kandidaten Anschuldigungen ausgesetzt, Online-Übergriffe auf Journalisten zu verüben. Die Wahl ist ohnehin alles andere als Routine: Die Kandidaten der Volksparteien schafften es nicht in die Stichwahl und schieden im ersten Wahlgang im April aus. Übrig blieben ein nominell Unabhängiger und […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch As Austria heads into the final days before a Dec. 4 presidential election, one contender’s backers increasingly face accusations of encouraging the online abuse of journalists. The allegation comes amid an election that has hardly been routine: candidates from Austria’s two traditionally strongest parties failed to make it past […]