ExPRESSion RePRESSion: 'International Efforts to Protect Journalists at Risk'

Why are journalists finding it even more difficult to perform their job in the modern age of information dissemination? In what ways are they repressed or targeted in their work? What is the role of the state in impunity for the perpetrators of violence against journalists? And how can we stop this?

These questions will be discussed in a public event organised by CGHR at 12.30 to 2pm Friday 2nd March 2012 in Room SG1: Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Expert panel:

• Christof Heyns, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
• Pansy Tlakula, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, African Commission on Human and People's Rights
• Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
• Celia Davies, former Cambridge graduate and Program Development Manager at Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, Azerbaijan
• Moderator: William Horsely, former BBC correspondent and UK Chairman, Association of European Journalists
• Chair: Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights

For more information, please refer to the CGHR website.