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85 per cent of journalist killings go unpunished

NEPS — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:45:51 +0000

Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world, and around 85 percent of the cases did not make it to court, according to a report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The dangers faced by journalists, including risks to their lives, are highlighted each year on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, which falls on 2 November.… Read the rest

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Kohima Press Club conducts a clean-up event at its allotted plot

NEPS — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:13:29 +0000

KOHIMA, May 18 (NEPS): Members of the Kohima Press Club (KPC) conducted a mass social service—a clean-up event—at the Press Club’s newly allotted plot adjacent to the Made in Nagaland complex on May 18, 2024.

Altogether, 24 members of the club participated.… Read the rest

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Kohima Press Club conducts a clean-up event at its allotted plot

NEPS — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:10:30 +0000

Altogether, 24 members of the club participated.… Read the rest

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Indigenous reporter fears more journalists will be targeted after arrest as police cleared Canada camp

NEPS — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:41:39 +0000

Brandi Morin was charged while reporting at encampment authorities arrived at to dismantle and could face two years in jail

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

A journalist in Canada who was arrested and charged while reporting on a police operation to clear an encampment for unhoused Indigenous people says she fears the charges will chill further reporting of marginalized groups.

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African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

NEPS — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:19:57 +0000

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

In 1968 the books pages of the French newspaper Le Monde excitedly praised an uncompromising new novel, Bound to Violence, going on to salute its author as one of “the rare intellectuals of international stature presented to the world by Black Africa”.

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‘Like being buried alive’: Australian journalist Cheng Lei on life in a Chinese prison

NEPS — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:12:19 +0000

Reporter reveals she was arrested for breaking a news embargo, and talks about how she survived months in solitary confinement

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Cait Kelly

Australian journalist Cheng Lei spent almost three years in China’s prison system for breaking an embargo by a few minutes, she has revealed in her first interview after returning home to Melbourne last week.… Read the rest

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DIPR ORGANIZES CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING

NEPS — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:57:16 +0000

KOHIMA, Oct 12: At the IPR Conference Hall in Kohima, the Directorate of Information & Public Relations hosted a two-day capacity-building training on service rules, account concerns, and photography. The two-day training got under way on October 12 and will end on October 13.… Read the rest

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Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity

NEPS — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:22:51 +0000

An Observer investigation finds DfE tried to cancel conference with ‘unsuitable’ speakers – and experts who criticised state education policy had online posts monitored

Anna Fazackerley

The Department for Education (DfE) is keeping files monitoring the social media activity of some of the country’s leading educational experts, the Observer can reveal.

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‘Generations of Haitians’ at risk, warns Guterres, calling for international force to help quell gang violence

NEPS — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:08:31 +0000

In Port-au-Prince on Saturday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed solidarity with the Haitian people “facing a terrible and mutually reinforcing cycle of… crises”, and urged deployment of an international force to assist the National Police in combating gang violence.

The UN chief expressed deep concern at the extreme vulnerability faced by the Haitian people – especially women and girls – because of brutally violent and “predatory” armed gangs, like those encircling the capital, blocking main roads and controlling access to water, food, health care.

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Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 being conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur

NEPS — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:38:06 +0000

KOHIMA, Jun 18 (NEPS): The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 is being conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur.

The Jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after due deliberations on 18 June, 2023, unanimously decided to select Gita Press, Gorakhpur as the recipient of the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021, in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods.… Read the rest

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