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The following national and international organizations think about how to be encouraged by the defense, the knowledge, and the monitoring the freedom of expression and of press.
The International Center Against Censura/The International Center Against Censorship (Article 19/Article 19)
It was established in 1986 and it takes as a principal function the promotion and protection of the freedom of expression. With head office in the United Kingdom, it has also a regional office in Africa. Article 19 has associates in more than 30 countries. The organization is provided with a Program of Laws, in addition to regional programs in Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
6-8 Amwell Street
London
EC1R 1UQ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-20-7278-9292
Fax: +44-20-7278-7660
E-mail: info@article19.org
Web: http://www.article19.org
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Committee to Protect the Periodistas/Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
CPJ is an apolitical organization, without lucre ends founded in 1981 to fight against abuses against the press and to encourage the freedom of expression in the whole world. CPJ has his head office in New York. The CPJ protects journalists when it denounces abuses against the press and when it realizes negotiations in favor of arrested or threatened journalists, in such a way that he warns the public where attacks happen to the press. The CPJ realizes energetic protests at any level, from local governments up to the United Nations and even, when it is necessary, realizing diplomatic negotiations for unofficial channels. The CPJ also publishes articles and expresses press releases, special reportages, a quarterly bulletin and his annual report on attacks to the press in the whole world, considered the most exhaustive of his type.
330 7th Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, New York 10001
USA
Tel: 212-465-1004
Fax: 212-465-9568
E-mail: info@cpj.org
Web: http://www.cpj.org
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Inter-American society of Press (SIP)
The SIP is an organization without lucre ends dedicated to defending the freedom of expression and of press in all the Americas. His principal targets are: to defend the freedom of the press where he wants that it is opposed in the Americas; to protect the interests of the press in the Americas; to defend the dignity, the rights and the responsibilities of the journalism; to encourage high norms of professionalism and managerial conduct; to promote the exchange of ideas and information that he contributes to the technical and professional development of the press; to encourage a wide knowledge and a major information exchange between the peoples of the Americas in support to the basic beginning of a free society and of the individual freedom. The SIP is provided with telephone numbers to which there can resort the captured, assaulted, brave journalists or in problems for practising his profesión:Colombia: 980-121-127; Mexico: 001-800-010-1794; the United States and Canada: 1-877-747-4272.
Jules Dubois Building
1801 S.W. 3rd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33129
USA
Tel: 305-634-2465
Fax: 305-635-2272
E-mail: info@sipiapa.org
Web: http://www.sipiapa.org
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International federation of Journalists / International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
It was established in 1926. Today it represents nearly 450,000 members in 100 countries, being the journalists' biggest organization in the world. The federation has his head office in Brussels, Belgium and six regional offices in different countries. IFJ established a Fund of International security to offer humanitarian aid to journalists violence victims. The federation works with trade unions representatives of the professionals of press and takes his problems at the international level - to the United Nations - and to the international trade union movement.
IFJ HEADQUARTERS
IPC-Residence Palace, Pad C
Rue of the Loi 155
B-1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: 32-2-235-22-00
Fax: 32-2-235-22-19
E-mail: ifj@pophost.eunet.be
Web: http://www.ifj.org/
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Reporters Sin Fronteras Sans Frontieres (RSF)
It is an international organization for journalists with head office in Paris and offices in different cities of the world. The organization publishes a report on the violations of the freedom of the press in the world, expresses alerts when it meets serious cases and publishes notes on freedom of the press.
International Secretariat: RSF
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
Web: http://www.rsf.org
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World committee of Libertad de Prensa/World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC)
It helps journalists in his battles contras abuses that affect the press. WPFC has members in the printed matter and in radio and television. With head office in the United States, the organization has 44 members in six continents. It has developed the Letter for a Free Press, which offers the essential rights for the existence of the freedom of the press.
11690-C Sunrise Valley Dr.
Reston, Virginia 20191
USA
Tel: 703-715-9811
Fax: 703-620-6790
E-mail: freepress@wpfc.org
Web: http://www.wpfc.org/
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Freedom House
It is an independent international organization, with head office in the United States that has been wrapped in all the struggles for the freedom. The organization has put up against the dictatorships in Central America and Chile, the apartheid in Africa, the genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, in addition to the human rights violations in Cuba, Burma, China and Iraq.
Washington A.D. OFFICE
1301 Connecticut Bird. NW, Floor 6
Washington A.D. 20036
Tel: 202-296-5101
Fax: 202-293-2840
E-mail: fh@freedomhouse.org
Web: http://www.freedomhouse.org/
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International exchange of the Freedom of Expresión/International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
The International Exchange of the Freedom of expression (IFEX) arose like a force of vigorous and prosperous opposition, because they continue the serious violations of the freedom of expression in the whole world. IFEX was born in 1992, when many of the most important organizations to the advantage of the freedom of expression met in Montreal to debate the best way of advancing towards his collective goals. The IFEX nucleus is constituted by organizations which members are ready to defend those who have the value to demand his fundamental human right to the free expression when they are censured, treated brutally or murdered. Integrated by more than 25 situated groups different of freedom of expression everywhere, from Oceania, Europe and western Africa-IFEX assembles an extraordinarily diverse and dedicated global community. In the last years, many new members of the developing countries have joined the IFEX community - and have contributed new perspectives and energy. The decentralized IFEX structure believe a dynamic and truly international corporation.
555 Richmond St W.
PO Box 407
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5V 3B1
Tel: 1-416-515-9622
Fax: 1-416-515-7879
E-mail: ifex@ifex.org
Web: http://www.ifex.org
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The Association for the Progress of the Communications (APC)
The APC is an international network of civic organizations that is present at groups and at individuals who work for the peace, the human rights, the development and the protection of the way ambienta, across the strategic use of Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC), included Internet.
The Office of the Executive director
PO Box 29755
Melville 2109
South Africa
Tel: 27-11-726-1692
Fax: 27-11-726-1692
E-mail: webeditor@apc.org
Web: http://www.apc.org/espanol/index.shtml
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The Center for the Justice and the International law (CEJIL)
The CEJIL is an organization of defense and promotion of the human rights in the American hemisphere. The principal CEJIL target is to assure the full implementation of international norms of human rights in the Member states of the Organization of the American States (OEA), by means of the effective use of the inter-American system of human rights and other mechanisms of international protection.
CEJIL Washington
Viviana Krsticevic, Executive director
1630 Connecticut Bird., NW, Suite 401
Washington A.D. 20009 – 1053
USA
Tel: 202-319-3000
Fax: 202-0319-3019
E-mail: washington@cejil.org
Web: http://www.cejil.org/
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Pressnet: Journalists, Periodismo and Mass media in Internet
It is a meeting point for Journalists, students, and students of the Journalism and the social communication of any place of the planet, which use Internet to communicate, to work or that possess virtual directions, as well as a documentary informative and basic space and of resources about the journalists, the journalism and media of Social communication in Internet. For Pressnet it is fundamental his character of public and free service for all the persons, which allows them the access to the best and most finished catalog of information sources exceeds the mentioned subject-matters, and on the global actuality. That's why it includes also, services of general interest for all the public.
Tel: 34-954-09-23-15; 34-655-19-53-22
Fax: 34-954-09-23-15
E-mail: informacion@pressnetweb.com
Web: http://www.pressnetweb.com
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Special Relatoría for the Freedom of expression
He devotes himself to verify denunciations and threats to the freedom of expression in the Americas. He publishes an annual report on the situation of the press in the region. The Relatoría is a part of the Inter-American Commission of Human rights of the Organization of the American States (OEA).
1889 F Street, N.W.
Washington, A.D., 20006
USA
Tel: (202) 458-3796
Fax: (202) 458-6215
E-mail: cidhrela@oas.org
Web: http://www.cidh.org/relatoria/
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Inter-American institute of Rights Humanos/Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR)
It is an autonomous international institution dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Americas. The mission of the IIDH is that of promoting and strengthening the respect of the human rights and consolidating the democracy by means of the investigation, the education, the training, the political mediation, the consultancy and technical assistance on the subject of human rights. His action is based on the beginning of the representative democracy, the democracy, the ideological pluralism and the respect of the rights and fundamental freedoms. The IIDH works with all the sectors of the civil society and of the State and with the international organisms.
PO Box 10081-1000
San Jose
Costa Rica
Tel: 506-234-04-04
Fax: 506-234-09-55
E-mail: instituto@iidh.ed.cr
Web: http://www.iidh.ed.cr/
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Institute Gutenberg
It was created by journalists in 1994, in honor to the German genius who invented the mobile press, with the mission to be a critic independent from the means. The Institute is an apolitical organism and without ends of lucre that before any type of value defends the freedom of the press as one value of the society, as the freedom of expression, of religion, of organizations and of the individual rights that give sense and vigor to a civilized nation.
Rua Hermes Fontes, 164
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Tel: 5511-870-1474
E-mail: igutenberg@igutenberg.org
Web: http://www.igutenberg.org
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National Associa ção of Jornais (ANJ)
The ANJ exists to join to the principal Brazilian newspapers in the search of an every time better, more independent, more taxpaying, more reflective product, more instigante, anyway, more indispensable. His mission is to defend the freedom of expression, of thought and of propaganda, the functioning without restrictions of the press, to observe the beginning of responsibility and to fight for the defense of the human rights, the values of the representative democracy and the free initiative. The ANJ represents to the newspapers in the defense of his legitimate interests and to contribute so that, from the experiences exchange, of difusón of inovaçiones and of cooperation between companies and entities, the means could be unrolled in his most diverse aspects.
SCS Quadra 2 - Bloco D - 6th gait
70316-900 Brasília/DF
Brazil
Tel: 61-2103-7488
Fax: 61-3322-1425
E-mail: anj@anj.org.br
Web: http://www.anj.org.br/
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Democratic Association for the Defense of the Human rights (ASDEH)
It is a Colombian organization with international, democratic projection and without fortitude of lucre, which defends, promotes and spreads the International law of the Human rights, it impels the application of the Humanitarian International law and defends the Freedom of the press. In this sense, he promotes activities of diffusion, advice, training discussion and investigation, tending to the knowledge, to the respect and to the defense of the Human rights, to the Humanitarian International law and the Freedom of the press, both in the national and international ambience. In accordance with the object arranged in his Articles of association in his aspect misional, the ASDEH is moved forward a set of activities faced to promote and to guarantee the full validity of the Human rights, the application of the Humanitarian International law and the defense of the Freedom of the press. For this end, it impels four big action strategies: Protection, Formation and Investigation, Promotion and Publication and Institutional Strengthening.
Street 67 Not. 6-60 Of. 503
PO Box (57) 2357020
Bogota
Colombia S.A.
Tel: 57-1-346-5421
Fax: 57-1-346-5423
E-mail: direccion@asdeh.org
Web: http://www.asdeh.org/
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Foundation for a New Latin-American Journalism (FNPI)
It is an organization without lucre fortitude with head office in Cartagena of the Indies, Colombia, that takes as a mission to promote the formation and professional improving of the journalists of the Latin-American countries. The Foundation was created and it is presided by the journalist and writer Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize winner of Literature. The central project of the Foundation is the Workshop of Latin-American Journalism, an itinerant program of workshops and seminars for journalists that is realized by the institutional and financial patronage of the United Nations Organization for the Education, the Science and the Culture (UNESCO), CEMEX and of other public and private entities.
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Cartagena of the Indies
Colombia
Tel: 57-5-664-5890
Fax: 57-5-664-5904
E-mail: contactenos@fnpi.org
Web: http://www.fnpi.org/
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Means for the Peace (MPP)
It is an organization without ends of lucre that is shaped by a group of 64 Colombian journalists that we think about how to propitiate a responsible journalism in the covering of the war and of the efforts of negotiation for a political exit. It agglutinates in whole to 774 journalists of the whole country and of the exterior (to August, 2002) that, being employed at Network, do permanent analysis and reflection on the Colombian reality and we support a constant exchange of information about our office and about the everyday occurrences of the peace and of the War. It has the status of Affiliate of MediaChannel, a global Network of more than 900 journalistic and publishing groups that resist the disinformation. The MediaChannel motto is "The means they observe the world, we observe to the means".
Cra. 15 N ° 82 - 58 Of. 402
Bogota
Colombia
Tel: 5304200 - 2579913; 53119
Fax: 5306182
E-mail: editor@mediosparalapaz.org
Web: http://www.mediosparalapaz.org
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Journalists' network
It is a part of the Program Righteousness that tries to consolidate at national level a network of journalists compromised with the promotion of a new ethical culture for the prevention of the corruption and the consolidation of the transparence and the free competition in the contractual individuals activity in business with the State.
Cra 13 not 27-47 Of. 502
Bogota
Colombia
Tel: (571) 3467055
E-mail: webmaster@confecamaras.org.co
Web: http://www.probidad.org.co/Periodistas
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Reporters' brotherhood of Mexico
It was founded on August 10, 1995. As trade union organization claims the free journalistic exercise, defends the right to information and denounces all kinds of aggression against journalists. From his creation he has organized meetings, round tables and conferences on journalistic ethics, freedom of expression, defense and organization of the union. His academic activity understands qualified and courses of professional development that have been given in universities and centers of higher education of Mexico.
Avenue Juárez 88 - the First apartment
Historical center, Mexico D.F., 06600
Mexico
Tel: 52-5512-1559
Fax: 52-8589-85-20
E-mail: info@fremac.org.mx
Web: http://www.fremac.org.mx/
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Foundation Manuel Buendía (FMB)
It is a civil association constituted in September, 1984, in order to spread the work and the thought of the journalist who names him - one of the more out-standing and influential Mexican columnists of the second half of the XXth century, which died murdered for exercising his office on May 30 of that year - as well as to promote the analysis, the debate and the human resources formation on the subject of social communication and journalism. To expire with these intentions, the FMB supports eight programs: the Mexican Magazine of Communication, a Publishing Fund, a Bank of Information of Social Communication, an electronic page in Internet, the Unit of Training, the Unit of Pursuit and Analysis of Offenses to the Freedom of expression, the yearbook Mexican Journal of Communication and the Latin-American Magazine of Right of the Information.
Guaymas 8-408, Cabbage. Rome
C.P. 06700 Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Tel: 01-55-5207 1857
Fax: 01-55-5208 4261
E-mail: fundacionbuendia@prodigy.net.mx
Web: http://www.mexicanadecomunicacion.com.mx/Tables/FM B/homef.html
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Journalists of Investigation - I WILL GO Mexico
It is a project that initiated in September, 1996. At present it is provided with more than 300 members in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina, all of them investigation journalists. The project in Mexico arose from the members (both Latin-American and North American) of an international association of name Investigative Reporters and Editors. Investigative Reporter and Editors, or I WILL GO as it is known by his initials in English, it has 20 years of experience in the organization of workshops and conferences in the United States with the intention of supporting and of helping to perfect the work of the journalists of investigation. It is provided with more than three thousand members in the United States and in other countries, including Mexico. Journalists of Investigation (I will go Mexico) it will propitiate the exchange of knowledge, information and experiences between his members, and will promote the investigation journalism by means of seminars and conferences, the publication of a bulletin and the training of reporters and publishers interested by journalism assisted by computer. Also, Journalists of Investigation it takes part actively in the efforts to improve and to consolidate the access to information mechanisms in Mexico.
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Cologne Rosemary of Terreros
Coyoacán
Mexico, D.F., CP 04310
Mexico
Tel: 525-559-5958
Fax: 525-554-0250
E-mail: nanuc@mac.com
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National council of Journalism
Established in 2002, the CNP has between his targets: To defend and to promote the freedom of expression and the right to information, with the intention of strengthening the exercise of these rights; to Raise the dignity of the national journalism; to Encourage practices destined to achieve an equitable dealing and a remuneration jousts for the professional journalists and his hiring for the mass media; and to promote the training and professional training of the journalists across courses, seminars or technical and scientific programs, already is straight or by means of strategic alliances or agreements with the universities or organizations that give chairs or courses of journalism or social communication.
Street 50 and 53, Obarrio, PH Banco Atlántico, I Tread on 2
Paragraph 0816-02005, Panama
Tel: Telefax: (507) 214-4930/31
E-mail: direccionejecutiva@cnppanama.org
Web: http://www.cnppanama.org/
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National council of Journalism
Established in 2002, the CNP has between his targets: To defend and to promote the freedom of expression and the right to information, with the intention of strengthening the exercise of these rights; to Raise the dignity of the national journalism; to Encourage practices destined to achieve an equitable dealing and a remuneration jousts for the professional journalists and his hiring for the mass media; and to promote the training and professional training of the journalists across courses, seminars or technical and scientific programs, already is straight or by means of strategic alliances or agreements with the universities or organizations that give chairs or courses of journalism or social communication.
Street 50 and 53, Obarrio, PH Banco Atlántico, I Tread on 2
Paragraph 0816-02005, Panama
Tel: Telefax: (507) 214-4930/31
E-mail: direccionejecutiva@cnppanama.org
Web: http://www.cnppanama.org/
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Latin-American center of Journalism (CELAP)
The mission of this organization is to strengthen a free and responsible press in Latin America, by means of the continuous personal development of the journalists, owners of mass media, manager of news and teachers of the journalism of the region. The center is located in the City of Panama, Republic of Panama. It receives financial support by means of contributions of the owners of mass media, of private foundations and of income generated by its own activities. The means owners in Latin America contribute to a permanent capital with the understanding of which his original donation will be returned them, if one day CELAP was closing.
Ricardo J Ventures center PH, Street 79 West, Route.
Mezzanine, Place M-2, The Gilding
PO Box 810-543 Panama
Panama
Tel: 507-229-6775
Fax: 507-236-6181
E-mail: dilmarrosas@celap.net
Web: http://www.celap.net/
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Expressions
It is a fortnightly electronic magazine published under its own responsibility and dedicated to all the Panamanian ones and Panamanians who look for mass communication media that offers to them the opportunity to express itself of free and responsible form. His target is to reach port to the improving of the democracy, being a portal opened for the civil participation in the search of solutions to the problems of the nation, generating a stage of exchange of ideas that allows the construction of real proposals, in order precedents sitting that coadyuven to the most just construction of a Panamanian and more human society.
E-mail: info@expresionesamp.net
Web: http://www.expresionesamp.net/
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Institute Press and Society (IPYS)
It is not governmental organism without lucre ends, founded in 1993 by journalists and Peruvian publishers to defend and to promote the freedoms of the press and expression, in the frame of the human rights, and to reinforce the roll of the mass media in the construction of the democratic State in Peru and other countries of the Andean region. The IPYS devotes itself systematically to the monitoring of the freedom of expression in Peru. It is sustained in the beginning of the free journalism in a democratic society and tolerates the difference of ideas between his members, the same that promotes the widest freedom for the diffusion of information and opinions, meanwhile they do not affect other fundamental rights of the person. His organs of direction and consultation are integrated by out-standing journalists with recognition and prestige at national and international level. The IPYS prepares and spreads alert notes to defend the freedom of expression, organizes discussion forums on the roll of the press and opens spaces so that the journalism could develop without hobbles or pressures. At the same time, it favors the informative transparence and encourages the establishment of mechanisms that allow to the citizens to receive a better and more opportune information.
Keep silent about Sucre 317
Ravine (Alt. Bridge of the Sighs)
Lima
Peru
Tel: 51-1-247-3308
Fax: 511-247-3194
E-mail: postmaster@ipys.org
Web: http://www.ipys.org/
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Latin-American observatory for the Freedom of expression - FELATRACS
It is an organ of the Latin-American Federation of Workpeople of the Social Communication, integrated by associations, trade unions, unions, institutions of professional training, training and specialization, cultural, community and social organizations, groups, related institutions and connected activities of workpeople of the social communication, as well as for persons and other groups that are identified by the ends and targets of the Federation, located in the whole Latin - Caribbean America, compromised with the promotion and defense of the freedom of expression like fundamental human right.
Shred Huancavelica 320
It files 1
Peru
Tel: 51 1 - 4278493
Fax: 51-1 - 4270687
Web: http://www.felatracs.org
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Council of the Peruvian Press
In 1996 the first steps happened for the formation of the Council of the Peruvian Press with the intention of:" To strengthen increasingly the credibility of the press in the public opinion; as well as to prevent in a permanent way the validity of the freedoms of information, expression, opinion and of the free journalistic company". His creation oficializó en1997, on having installed the Directorate to him, with the order of giving pursuit and evaluating permanently the situation relative to the freedom of expression and of press in the country. In this work and when the case deserves it, the Directorate expresses bulletins addressed to the Council of the Peruvian Press. In 1998, there was established officially the Court of Ethics of the Council of the Peruvian Press, which function is that of observing the requests of complaint and rectification that there should present that readership who turn out to be affected by the informations, more not for the opinions published in the associate means. Also he evaluates complaints for disobedience of ethical values
Black top 572 Magdalen
It files 17
Peru
Tel: 511-264-6409
Fax: 511-264-0005
E-mail: postmast@consejopp.org.pe
Web: http://www.consejoprensaperuana.org.pe/
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