Title: CPJ - Committee to Protect Journalists

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Committee to Protect Journalists

URL: http://www.cpj.org/

Date Checked: 2/28/02      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 3/8/02

Topics: Communications Law; Foreign Law; Civil Rights

Other keywords: Censorship; Journalism and journalists

Contents: The Committee to Protect Journalists is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded in 1981, "dedicated to the global defense of press freedom," primarily with respect to print but also covering broadcast journalism. Offered are reports of journalists and editors who have been assaulted or forced to resign, restrictions against foreign journalists, defamation cases against journalists, arrests, and repressive legislation. The archives, which are searchable by global region, go back to 2000. On the homepage a sidebar lists a variety of subjects, including reports on Burma, Iran, and the Al-Jazeera network; brief reports on experiences of journalists covering Afghanistan; summaries of a selection of "absurd press laws" around the world (no legal citations given), and several years' worth of "the 10 worst enemies of the press". (Scroll through the entire sidebar as interesting topics may be found in the lower levels.) There are regional home pages for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and a special section for Latin America entitled "Journalism Is Not a Crime." This section publishes news of legal cases against journalists, the text of international freedom of the press conventions, links to a press law database and similar sites, and legal decisions from other regions. The entire website is searchable and is available in a Spanish version.

Author of Annotation: A. Carson