Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) - Stakeholders

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) is a foundation established in 1989 in Warsaw. The HFHR is one of the most experienced and professional non-governmental organizations involved in the protection of human rights in Europe. It is active both in Poland and abroad, in particular in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus and Central Asia. HFHR conducts national and international trainings, organizes conferences and seminars. It provides expert consultation in the sphere of human rights and freedoms to individuals as well as to non-governmental organizations and to state institutions.

In 1993, the Foundation set up the Human Rights House in Warsaw, an international network to protect, empowers and support human rights defenders and their organizations. Today, more than 100 independent human rights organizations work together in 15 Human Rights Houses located in Eastern and Western Europe, the Caucasus and the Balkans. The headquarter of the Human Rights House Foundation is based in Oslo.

In Poland the Foundation has established the Observatory of Media Freedom , a program dedicated to monitoring the standards of protection of the freedom of expression in Poland, through legal opinions, analysis and complaints to the European Court of Human Rights.

Macedonia: Indicators for the level of media freedom and journalists' safety - Reports

Supported by the European Union, the Association of Journalists of Macedonia has produced a report which intends to assess media freedom throughout three main indicators 

Control the money, control the media - Academic Sources

An account of the ways governments use funding to keep the media in line

Arman Fazlić: Against all attacks on journalists - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution of Arman Fazlić of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Journalists’ Association to the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017)

Bardhyl Jashari on media literacy in the Western Balkans - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution of Bardhyl Jashari, director of Metamorphosis Macedonia, in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017)

Dragana Obradović: There won't be European integration without free press - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution of Dragana Obradović of BIRN Serbia, in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017)

Dragan Janjić: We should support free media - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution of Dragan Janjić of Beta News Agency Serbia - in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017)

Nenad Šebek: Keep on fighting for Media Freedom - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution by Nenad Šebek, director of the Belgrade Office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017)

Chiara Sighele: Creating transnational networks for media freedom - HTML5 video

This short video presents the contribution of Chiara Sighele - project manager of the project European Centre for Press and Media Freedom at Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) - in the panel "Media and journalism in the WB6: a very European issue" held in Trieste in the context of the Civil Society Forum (July 10-12, 2017).

Job: Europe correspondent for CPJ - Opportunities

The Committee to Protect Journalists is recruiting a part-time correspondent to cover media freedom in the EU member and candidate countries