{"id":67404,"date":"2015-07-03T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=67404"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:56:06","slug":"handbook-on-laws-protecting-free-expression-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=67404","title":{"rendered":"Handbook on laws protecting free expression launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67407\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/contentAsset\/raw-data\/dceec155-7cb8-4860-a68e-4b463e562051\/file\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67407\" class=\"wp-image-67407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-03-at-12.01.03.png\" alt=\"The new defence handbook for journalists and bloggers (Screengra\" width=\"700\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-03-at-12.01.03.png 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-03-at-12.01.03-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-03-at-12.01.03-228x200.png 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/contentAsset\/raw-data\/dceec155-7cb8-4860-a68e-4b463e562051\/file\">Defence Handbook for Journalists and Bloggers<\/a> from the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reporters Without Borders and law firm Paul Hastings<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"para chapo\">A new handbook aims to provide journalists and bloggers worldwide with guidance on the international legal framework protecting their rights to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">Produced by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, and law firm Paul Hastings, the\u00a0<a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/publication\/?id=dceec155-7cb8-4860-a68e-4b463e562051\">Defence Handbook for Journalists and Bloggers<\/a>\u00a0focuses on how international legal principles apply to journalists&#8217; work. It also includes previous decisions and recommendations made by international and regional bodies and courts on aspects of freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cJournalists around the world are more and more under threat and often become targets,\u201d said Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. \u201cTerrorist groups, but also powerful lobbies and a number of governments are increasingly trying to censor the media, preventing opinion sharing and the release of vital information to the public. Now more than ever, journalists need to be brave, avoid self-censorship, and be aware that they can seek refuge in international law. This guide is a very powerful weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67408\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19298740041_0c42d80fa2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Index CEO spoke at the launch of the handbook (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation)\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19298740041_0c42d80fa2_z.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/19298740041_0c42d80fa2_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Index CEO spoke at the launch of the handbook (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"para\">Index on Censorship chief executive Jodie Ginsberg spoke at the launch of the handbook, outlining the threats that Index has identified in its work <a href=\"https:\/\/mappingmediafreedom.org\/\">mapping media freedom<\/a>\u00a0in the European Union and neighbouring countries. Since Index launched the project in mid-2014 more than 800 incidents have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/europes-journalists-face-growing-climate-of-fear\/\">reported<\/a> to the map. Ginsberg described a climate of fear in which governments crack down increasingly on the media and free expression more generally, and cited a lack of awareness among some media professionals about the laws that protect them. &#8220;Uncertainty &#8212; when journalists don&#8217;t know their rights &#8212; leads to self-censorship,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers at the event in London included Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders;\u00a0John Lloyd, senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute; Sylvie Kaufmann, editorial director and columnist at Le Monde; lawyer\u00a0William Bourdon; and journalist Owen Bennett-Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2015\/07\/handbook-on-laws-protecting-free-expression-launched\/\">This article was posted on 3 July 2015 at indexoncensorship.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handbook aims to provide journalists and bloggers worldwide with guidance on the international legal framework protecting their rights to freedom of expression<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67408,"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":[6903,581],"tags":[4027,52,7442,208,727,538,5017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67404"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67404"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86884,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67404\/revisions\/86884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}