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*[[Todd Lester]] "worked with Reporters Without Borders to establish its New York communications desk." <ref>[http://www.freedimensional.org/about/index.html About fD], freeDIMENSIONAL, accessed August 23, 2007.</ref> | *[[Todd Lester]] "worked with Reporters Without Borders to establish its New York communications desk." <ref>[http://www.freedimensional.org/about/index.html About fD], freeDIMENSIONAL, accessed August 23, 2007.</ref> | ||
*[[Saleem Samad]] <ref>[http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/SaleemSamad.php Saleem Samad], The Intelligence Summit, accessed August 23, 2007.</ref> | *[[Saleem Samad]] <ref>[http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/SaleemSamad.php Saleem Samad], The Intelligence Summit, accessed August 23, 2007.</ref> | ||
| + | *[[George Tarkhan-Mouravi]] - Past Correspondence <ref>[http://www.policy.hu/mouravi/CV_2003.html George Tarkhan-Mouravi], accessed August 24, 2007.</ref> | ||
==Funding Sources== | ==Funding Sources== | ||
Revision as of 22:11, 23 August 2007
Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) is "an international non-governmental organization devoted to freedom of the press".
- RWB/RSF is a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a virtual network of non-governmental organisations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and campaigns to defend journalists, writers and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
In January 2007 RSF received the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award, a prize set by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. [1]
RWF's website notes that: "The Saatchi & Saatchi agency designs and conducts all our media campaigns." [2]
In November 2006 "The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) have expressed concern about the proposed amendments, which are part of a penal code review." [3]
In October 2001 the Burma Media Association (BMA) "joined the international network of organizations in Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders)." [4]
Contents
People
- Tala Dowlatshahi, New York Director [5]
- Todd Lester "worked with Reporters Without Borders to establish its New York communications desk." [6]
- Saleem Samad [7]
- George Tarkhan-Mouravi - Past Correspondence [8]
Funding Sources
Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF's budget was primarily provided by "US organizations strictly linked with US foreign policy" (Thibodeau, La Presse).
- NED (US$39,900 paid 14 Jan 2005)
- Center for a Free Cuba (USAID and NED funded) $50,000 per year NED grant. Contract was signed by Otto Reich
- European Union (1.2m Euro) -- currently contested in EU parliament
- Rights & Democracy in 2004 supported Reporters Without Borders-Canada [1]
"Grants from private foundations (Open Society Foundation, Center for a Free Cuba, Fondation de France, National Endowment for Democracy) were slightly up, due to the Africa project funded by the NED and payment by Center for a Free Cuba for a reprint of the banned magazine De Cuba." [2]
Principal focus of RSF activities
- Cuba
- Venezuela
- Haiti
Press Freedom Award
"OMV supports the organisation Reporters Without Borders by financing the Press Freedom Award for Journalists in the EU Accession States The winners for 2004 were journalists from Eastern European countries that are now neighbours of the EU: Anca Paduraru from Romania, Alina Anghel from Moldavia, Andriy Sevchenko from Ukraine." [9]
"Reza Alijani, editor of Iran-e-Farda and 2001 laureate of the Reporters Without Borders-Fondation de France press freedom award". [10]
Otto Reich connection
- "The man who links RSF to these activities is Otto Reich, who worked on the coups first as assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, and, after Nov. 2002, as a special envoy to Latin America on the National Security Council. Besides being a trustee of the government-funded Center for a Free Cuba, which gives RSF $50,000 a year, Reich has worked since the early 1980's with the IRI.'s senior vice president, Georges Fauriol, another member of the Center for a Free Cuba. But it is Reich's experience in propaganda that is especially relevant." [3]
Principals
- Robert Ménard -- Sec. General
- Lucie Morillon -- RSF rep in Washington DC
- Frank Calzón -- formerly a leader of Abdalas and the Cuban American National Foundation.
Contact details
Reporters sans frontières
International Secretariat
5, rue Geoffroy-Marie
75009 Paris - France
Tel. 33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax. 33 1 45 23 11 51
E-mail : rsf@rsf.org
RSF Website: http://www.rsf.org/
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
- Arab Press Freedom Watch
- Blogging
- Gulf Press Freedom Center
- Journalism
- non-governmental organization
- Omar Faruk Osman In 2006, he was chosen to be a member of the international jury of the RSF
References
- ↑ Jewel Huang, "Reporters Without Borders wins Asia Democracy and Human Rights award", Taipei Times, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Income and expenditure, Reporters Without Borders, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ SINGAPORE THREATENS TIGHTER CONTROL OVER INTERNET AND FREE EXPRESSION, IFEX, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Media: Online News Providers, Sea Media, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Tala Dowlatshahi, New York Director for Reporters Without Borders, US Department of State, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ About fD, freeDIMENSIONAL, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Saleem Samad, The Intelligence Summit, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ George Tarkhan-Mouravi, accessed August 24, 2007.
- ↑ Reporters Without Borders, OMV, accessed August 23, 2007.
- ↑ Reporters Without Borders calls for law be applied and jailed Iranian journalists freed, accessed August 23, 2007.
External links
- "Reporters Without Borders", Wikipedia.
- Serge Halimi, "France: his master’s voice", Le Monde Diplomatique, Aug 2001. (A concession by RSF's Robert Ménard).
- Al Giordano, "Open Letter to Robert Ménard of Reporters Without Borders", Narco News, Latin America, July 29, 2002.
- Thierry Deronne, The "Distorters Without Borders", NarcoNews, 4 October 2002.
- Salim Lamrani, "The Reporters Without Borders Fraud", ZNet Magazine, May 13, 2005.
- Diana Barahona, "Reporters Without Borders Unmasked: Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy", Counterpunch, May 17, 2005.
- Diana Barahona, "Government funds color press group’s objectivity", The Guild Reporter, March 11, 2005.
- "Journalist watchdog accused of bias", The Guardian, London, May 20, 2005.
- Marc Thibodeau, Disquieting Questions for RSF, La Presse (Montreal), 30 April 2005.
- Annon, "Reporters Without Borders: There is no occupation - Kristoffer Larsson", PeacePalestine, November 4, 2005.
- Jean-Guy Allard, "La Unión Europea renuente a investigar las dudosas relaciones de Reporteros Sin Fronteras", Rebelion, 22 Dec 2005 (in Spanish).
- Carolina Cositore, "Reporters Without Britches: Reporters Without Borders Caught with Their Pants Down", ZNet, February 12, 2006.
- Diana Barahona and Jeb Sprague, "Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups", Counterpunch, 2 August 2006.
- Colin Brayton, "Reporters With Hazy Boundaries", The New Market Machines, August 5, 2006.
- Luciana Bohne, "Ten anti-Castro "journalists" in South Florida on US government payroll", Online Journal, 15 September 2006.
- Luciana Bohne, "Reporters Without Borders Financed by CIA", Conspiracy Planet, September 2006.
- Hossein "Hoder" Derakhshan, "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is biased against Iran", Washington Post Blog, December 16, 2006.
- Salim Lamrani, "Cuba, the Internet and Reporters without Borders", Znet, March 25, 2007.
- "Pilger on Reporters Without Borders and RCTV", The New Media Machines, June 8, 2007. (6 minute video)
- Salim Lamrani, "Reporters Without Borders and RCTV: Disinformation and Lies", Znet, July 05, 2007.
