The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism's main priority is to promote and improve the standards of Brazilian journalism and to offer training to journalists and students of journalism.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
The Berkman Center was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. It represents a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with...
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR)
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights promotes human rights in Bahrain. BCHR encourages and supports individuals and groups to be proactive in the protection of their own and others' rights; and to struggle to promote democracy and human rights.
Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM)
The Association of Independent Electronic Media comprises 28 radio stations and 16 television companies which strive to broadcast news programmes of the highest professional standards throughout Serbia and Montenegro. ANEM aims to establish a...
Kamila Shamsie: Islam and offence
In an extract from her new book in the Manifestos for the 21st Century series, author Kamila Shamsie explores the reasons why Islam has become synonymous with offence There are moments in history when particular words seem to exert a magnetic...
Yemen media walk out
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the...
The right to protest: Technology turns the camera on surveillance state
In the first of a series of articles on protest and free speech, Guardian reporter Paul Lewis assesses the fallout from the death of Ian Tomlinson When campaigners wave placards, march, occupy buildings and shout, their methods are dismissed as...
Last Tiananmen Square “hooligan” released
Liu Zhihua, the last-known prisoner jailed on the charge of hooliganism after protesting against the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released from jail in China in advance of the 20th anniversary of the...
Reporters ‘can cover Burma trial’
Officials in Burma have unexpectedly announced that a group of journalists - five local and five foreign - will be able to cover the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more here. Meanwhile Reporters Without Borders has reported...
MPs’ expenses: police will not investigate leaks to media
Scotland Yard will not investigate the leaking of details of MPs' allowances and expenses to the Daily Telegraph, the Metropolitan police said today. Read more here
Donald Rumsfeld ‘Bible texts’ criticised
Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been accused of using quotes from the Bible in his briefings to George W Bush during the Iraq War. Critics said he risked giving Muslims the impression that the war was a clash between Christianity...
Sherry Jones: “We must speak out for free speech”
Why are UK distributors refusing to handle The Jewel of Medina? It's time to raise an outcry says its author “Aren’t you scared?” I get asked this question all the time, most recently in the wake of the news that three radical extremist Muslim men...
