{"id":67189,"date":"2015-06-04T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=67189"},"modified":"2018-03-10T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T10:36:11","slug":"29-june-legal-protections-for-journalists-partner-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=67189","title":{"rendered":"29 June: Legal protections for journalists worldwide? (Partner event)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67196\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-shot-2015-06-24-at-13.34.43.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67196\" class=\"wp-image-67196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-shot-2015-06-24-at-13.34.43.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-06-24 at 13.34.43\" width=\"700\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-shot-2015-06-24-at-13.34.43.png 699w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-shot-2015-06-24-at-13.34.43-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-shot-2015-06-24-at-13.34.43-350x195.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, journalists face more threats than ever before, from harassment to imprisonment to murder &#8211; since the beginning of the year, 50 journalists have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>While some countries, like Norway, have scrapped blasphemy laws to strongly assert freedom of speech, others such as the UK are increasing state surveillance and censorship to &#8220;protect citizens from violence&#8221;. How can international law protect journalists in this challenging and unique context? Is it possible to strike a balance between security concerns and freedom of expression? Is the right to free speech an absolute one?<\/p>\n<p>Join the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reporters Without Borders and Paul Hastings LLP for a panel debate featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>John Lloyd<\/b>, \u00a0Reuters Institute and Financial Times<\/li>\n<li><b>Prof Timothy Garton Ash<\/b>, Oxford University<\/li>\n<li><b>Sylvie Kauffmann<\/b>, Le Monde<\/li>\n<li><b>William Bourdon<\/b>, Paris Bar and Association Sherpa<\/li>\n<li><b>Jodie Ginsberg<\/b>, Index on Censorship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0Monday\u00a029 June, 6:00pm (followed by drinks reception &amp; canap\u00e9s)<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Edelman, London, SW1E 6QT (<a href=\"http:\/\/conwayhall.org.uk\/about\/visiting-us\/\">Map\/directions<\/a>)<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:<\/strong> Free, book <a href=\"http:\/\/surveys.trust.org\/s3\/Thomson-Reuters-Foundation-Event-RSVP?UID=[cId,fallback=]&amp;EID=a11D000000AuCQmIAN\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#FreeSpeechDebate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, journalists face more threats than ever before, from harassment to imprisonment to murder &#8211; since the beginning of the year, 50 journalists have been killed. While some countries, like Norway, have scrapped blasphemy laws to strongly assert freedom of speech, others such as the UK are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":67196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6344,986,6323,296,727,5017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86915,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67189\/revisions\/86915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}