The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility is a non-profit foundation that has focused its endeavor on press freedom protection along with the establishment of a framework of responsibility for its practice. Its programs represent efforts to protect the press as well as to promote professional and ethical values in journalistic practice.
The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies is a committed group of human rights workers, lawyers, social activists and journalists who work for the protection and promotion of human rights in Nepal, and enhance freedom of expression and press.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is an organisation supported by Canadian journalists and advocates of free expression. The purpose of the organisation is to defend the rights of journalists and contribute to the development of media freedom throughout the world.
Websites will be subject to further restrictions under the country’s new media law, passed by President Lukashenko on 5 August. The law stipulates that online content will now be subject to the same restrictions as the print press. (more…)