It’s obvious what’s gained from these collaborations. As travel budgets decline, the work of far-flung freelancers is increasingly in demand, but often without any initial financial outlay from the outlets that eventually run our content. That leaves a freelancer with the near-impossible task of figuring out how to cover the cost of transportation, fixers, translators, equipment, and accommodation, while still being able to eat.
That calculation changes when a UN agency or an NGO springs for the cost of a flight or offers a place to stay.
Beyond the bottom line, there is the issue of safety.
Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review, by Andrew Green
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Dozens of journalists remain imprisoned in Iran more than a year after the inauguration of President Hassan Rouhani, who has pledged to seek more constructive engagement with the international community.
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GAZA CITY : A displaced Palestinian from the Shejaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip sits on a bench at the UN school where he and others have taken refuge after fleeing heavy fighting in their area, on July 21, 2014. The UN Security Council called for an “immediate ceasefire” as Israel pressed on with a blistering assault on Gaza taking the Palestinian death toll above 500. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI
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‘I was living with the Boss Man. I don’t love that man, but because of the war, I could not deny him. He would kill me. I would die. So I would not refuse.
I gave birth in the bush to a daughter named Mamiaye. And when the war ended, we came out to the town. He left me here. He never came again. Nobody said I want to take care of this woman with this child. You are a woman of a rebel. You killed people during the war. And now you come for forgiveness? Not here.’ - Janet, who was abducted by rebels at age 20 and forced to fight in Sierra Leone’s 11 year civil war.
At this week’s Global Summit to end Sexual Violence in Conflict, UN special envoy Angelina Jolie opened the event by saying that one of the goals was to end the disgrace that comes with being a victim.
Girl Soldier, a film by Reportage photographer Jonathan Torgovnik, which chronicles the stories of Sierra Leone’s female child soldiers, is being screened at the summit. Watch the film here.
UPDATE: Read interviews with Jonathan about the project on National Geographic Proof and Canon Professional Network.
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After reports of mass executions in Iraq, Ban Ki-moon urged that the perpetrators of those crimes be brought to justice while also calling on Iraqi leaders to prevent sectarian reprisals.
Meanwhile, Ms. Navi Pillay, the Chief of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), condemned the apparently systematic series of cold-blooded executions, mostly conducted in the Tikrit area, which she said almost certainly amounts to war crimes.
Read more here.
“I am critical of U.N. bodies for intentionally “burying the lead,” so as not perhaps to offend U.N. member states, and talking about many issues at once instead of zeroing in on the one issue that has long been and remains the greatest threat to both press freedom and at-risk journalists worldwide: unsolved journalist murders. CPJ research shows that three out of every five journalists killed around the world since 1992 have been outright murdered, and that the perpetrators get away with the crime in nearly 9 out of 10 journalist murders.”
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At the UN, let’s talk about journalist murders in plain language
By Frank Smyth/CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security
