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Embassy RowEmbassy Row, published by Sources as part of the Parliamentary Names & Numbers directory, lists all embassies and high commissions to Canada, and all Canadian embassies, high commissions and consulates abro...
International Crisis GroupThe International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. The International Crisis Group is now generally recognized as the world's...
League of Arab StatesA regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa. The Arab League currently has 22 members and four observers. The main goal of the league is to "draw closer the relations between ...
NATO North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of 26 countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. In accordance with the Tre...
United NationsThe United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems that challenge humanity. Cooperating in this effort are more than 30 affiliated organizations, known together as the UN system. Day in and day out, the UN...
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New Releases
Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status2009-05-02
Freedom House
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, acco...
The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in Iraq2010-01-28
International Federation of Journalists
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The G...
IFJ Condemns Jail Term for Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist2009-03-19
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has protested over the disproportionate decision of an Iraqi court which sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for...
IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East2009-05-02
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of ...
IFJ Demands Probe into Iraq Media Deaths After US Army Film Exposes Killing of Unarmed civilians and Journalists2010-04-06
International Federation of Journalists
Call for an investigation into the actions of the United States army which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq following the release of a shocking video film of a helicopter gunship...
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media2009-05-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Look at shoe tossing in context: union 2008-12-16
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
Canada's largest media union is calling for the release of the reporter who threw shoes at U.S. President George Bush.
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives2009-10-22
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation2010-02-10
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention2009-09-03
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
Sources Select Resources
Chilcot Inquiry - The Establishment Goes to WorkArticle
2009
Medialens
When public scepticism erupts in response to resultant extremes of state violence and criminality that even the media are powerless to deny, the illusion of democracy must be bolstered. Then Tweedledu...
Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free StatusSources News Release
Article
2009
Freedom House
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, acco...
How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gaysSarhan Afif, Burke Jason
Article
2009
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres
Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry # and hundreds are feared to be victims.
The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in IraqSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The G...
IFJ Condemns Jail Term for Shoe-Throwing Iraqi JournalistSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has protested over the disproportionate decision of an Iraqi court which sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for...
IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle EastSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of ...
IFJ Demands Probe into Iraq Media Deaths After US Army Film Exposes Killing of Unarmed civilians and JournalistsSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
Call for an investigation into the actions of the United States army which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq following the release of a shocking video film of a helicopter gunship...
The Iraq Crisis in ContextDiemer, Ulli
Article
2003
Connexions Information Sharing Services / Ulli Diemer
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent mediaSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Justifying What You Know Can't Be TrueBadger, Emily
Article
2009
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
Mercenaries on the makeIraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
Scahill, Jeremy
Article
2007
The Guardian Weekly
Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion...
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-divesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanationSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detentionSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
Sources Bookshelf
The No-Nonsense Guide to Global MediaSteven, Peter
Book
2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available...
Towers of DeceptionThe Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Zwicker, Barrie
Book
2006
New InternationalistNew Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
Spartacist CanadaPublication of the Trotskyist League, Canadian section of the International Communist League.
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