Corruption in Emergencies: What role(s) for media?

Report from U4 working meeting

Annex 1: List of resources

ARTICLE 19
Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ARTICLE 19 focuses on projects that oppose censorship by promoting freedom of expression standards and access to official information. Currently, it has partners in over 30 countries and concentrates particularly on strengthening local capacity to monitor and protest institutional and informal censorship. It has strong emphasis on developing standards that advance media freedom.

BBC World Service Trust
The WST provides media training, media monitoring assistance and has media development programmes running across the world. The Trust runs lifeline programming, partnering BBC journalists with local media to produce radio programmes for emergency situations. Lifeline programming has taken place in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Rwanda and Burundi.

Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists was founded 1981 by a group of U.S. foreign correspondents concerned at the treatment of foreign colleagues by authoritarian governments. It now seeks to promote press freedom worldwide by defending the right of journalists to report the news, by publicising abuses against the press and by acting on behalf of imprisoned and threatened journalists.

Freevoice
Free Voice is a media organization in the Netherlands that strives for independent and multiform media, and balanced and reliable journalistic press freedom.
The organisation supports independent media organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East en North Africa. Free Voice focuses its activities on increasing the expertise of journalists and media managers; community radio; children's news programmes; and media credit funding

Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
IWPR works with local journalism in areas of conflict. It provides training of reporters, encourages dialogue between journalists and tries to provide reliable information about conflict areas. It runs major programmes in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Iraq. The Institute maintains offices in Almaty, Baku, Balgrade, Bishkek, The Hague, Kabul, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Dushanbe with representatives in Tirana, Vladikavdaz and Yetevan.

Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is a magazine founded in 1972 by writers, journalists and artists inspired by the British poet Stephen Spender to defend the right of free expression. It documents free expression abuses and reports on censorship issues across the world. It also undertakes media development and training projects, most recently in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange
IFEX is an international network currently comprised of 65 organisations, based in Toronto, Canada, and managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. IFEX sponsors the Action Alert Network (AAN) in which member organisations report free expression abuses in their geographic region or area of expertise to the Clearing House which, in turn, circulates this information to other members and interested organizations all over the world. IFEX also has an outreach programme that tries to support new freedom of expression organizations in the developing world, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

International Media Support (IMS)
IMS was established in 2001 as an initiative of the Danish media community supported by the Danish Government. IMS undertakes rapid interventions to promote and strengthen press freedom and professional journalism and to improve the working conditions of local media practitioners. IMS has undertaken a large number of interventions in conflict areas, working with local partners and frequently with international NGOs.

Internews
Internews Network is a US based organisation that tries to improve information access by both fostering and assisting the development of independent media and by promoting open communications policies throughout the world. It is the funding member of Internews International which has members currently working in 47 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
IREX is a broad based international organisation, based in Washington DC and founded in 1968, that specialises in education, promoting independent media and internet development in the USA, Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East and Asia. It's work ranges from professional training to legislative reform with focus upon developing the capacity of independent media to support civil society.

International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists is the world's largest organisation of journalists. It was established in its present form in 1952. The Federation represents around 500 000 members in more than 100 countries. The IFJ promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions for journalists. It has recently co-established an International News Safety Fund (INSI) to provide humanitarian aid for journalists in need.

Reporters without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres)
Reporters without Borders is a Paris based international organisation with branches in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. It issues press releases and public-awareness campaigns on behalf of journalists under attack and provides financial and other types of support to their families. It also campaigns against censorship. In January 2002, it creates the Damocles Network to provide victims of abuse with legal services and represent them before the national and international courts.

UNESCO Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace
UNESCO has taken a lead role in the field of conflict and media within the UN family. UNESCO supports independent media in conflict and post-conflict situations to enable them to gather and disseminate non-partisan information. UNESCO's actions in this area includes the promotion of dialogue among media professionals in zones of conflict and the outside world and provision of advice to the authorities of countries in post-conflict situations in drafting new media legislation that enhances the development of freedom of expression. The organisation has hosted a number of conferences within this area in order to discuss and promote joint policies, including the 2004 Belgrade conference.

World Press Freedom Committee
The World Press Freedom Committee is a US based international umbrella representing approximately 45 organisations - ranging from print and broadcast media, through labour and management organisations, to journalists, editors, publishers and owners across the world. Its main activities are advocacy for freedom of expression, complemented by legal assistance grants to journalists and news media, and training programmes, seminars and publications of how-to journalistic manuals.

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