Journalists in the Arab World: the courage of speaking the truth to power
Journalists in the Arab World: the courage of speaking the truth to power: http://sm.ohchr.org/1t2jnWW
Journalists in the region must overcome tremendous challenges covering human rights-related stories, often facing death threats, imprisonment, threats of expulsion, blackmail, offers of bribes and more on a daily basis.
The UN Human Rights Office recently convened a specialist training
course, which offered media professionals from the Arab World the
opportunity to express their sometimes quite divergent views about media
coverage of human rights in the region.
