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CJFE monitors, defends and reports on free expression and access to information in Canada and abroad. Rooted in the field of journalism, we promote a free media as essential to a fair and open society. CJFE boldly champions the free expression rights of all people, and we encourage and support individuals and groups in the protection of their own and others’ free expression rights.
PROGRAMS INCLUDE: JOURNALISTS IN DISTRESS FUND CJFE provides humanitarian assistance to journalists who have been attacked or threatened because of their work. CJFE also coordinates a global network of international organizations with similar mandates to assist journalists. We provide grants to help journalists and their families obtain emergency necessities such as medical care, travel to safety and legal assistance. Since the fund’s establishment, CJFE has provided more than $230,000 for journalists in distress.
ADVOCACY WORK IN CANADA Canadian free expression rights are constantly being challenged. In recent years, CJFE has lobbied MPs to kill two bills that would have compromised journalistic integrity at the CBC. We’ve held demonstrations protesting violations of freedom of expression taking place around the world. CJFE also intervenes in legal cases to create better protections for freedom of expression across the country, including cases of hate speech, access to information, protecting sources, police impersonating journalists, and defamation and libel. Our website, CJFE.org, continues to grow as a specialized information hub for free expression in Canada and abroad.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF FREE EXPRESSION IN CANADA CJFE issues its Review of Free Expression in Canada annually on World Press Freedom Day, May 3. The review examines the state of free expression in Canada, with articles on a number of issues, including access to information, censorship and cyber-monitoring, and a report card on Canada’s performance over the past year.
IFEX A global network that defends and promotes freedom of expression, IFEX has member organizations in 60 countries. IFEX advocates for the free expression rights of all people, including media workers, citizen journalists, activists, artists and scholars. CJFE is a founding member of IFEX and creates opportunities for advocacy work while promoting a Canadian point of view in the network.
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Message From the President and Executive Director THIS YEAR HAS TESTED THE RESOLVE OF ALL WHO SUPPORT FREE EXPRESSION. Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and his colleagues are jailed in Egypt. Journalists in Syria are targeted by the government and Islamic militants alike. In Canada, politically motivated audits threaten dozens of charities, and our Access to Information system has all but fallen apart. Journalism and free expression have been threatened in 2014, but we continue to fight in their defense. This year’s CJFE Gala honours individuals who refuse to be silenced while staring persecution, violence and death in the face. We honour a journalist who reports on rampant government corruption in Ukraine, a group that forced our country to acknowledge the crisis of missing aboriginal women, and a veteran Canadian reporter whose time in Afghanistan was violently cut short while covering the country’s elections. CJFE works in their tenacious spirit. We advocate for the freedom of Mohamed Fahmy and his colleagues. From Syria to Cuba to China and beyond, we track and highlight threats to free expression. We published our annual Review of Free Expression in Canada in May, and are lobbying for the reform of Access to Information laws and the passage of anti-SLAPP legislation. We also maintain our Journalists in Distress Fund, providing grants for humanitarian assistance to journalists in times of crisis. This is only a brief snapshot of CJFE’s work, and we thank our Board, members, volunteers, sponsors, gala attendees and other supporters for making it possible. And remember, you can make a difference in the fight for free expression now. Simply become a member or make a donation at cjfe.org.
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The number of journalists assaulted in Ukraine in 2014 (as of November)
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The number of journalists kidnapped in Syria over the past three years (as of September 2014)
Afghanistan’s ranking on the 2014 Global Impunity Index, a list of 10 countries where journalists’ murders are most likely to go unpunished
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Canada’s ranking out of 100 countries on the Global Right to Information Rating, which ranks the strength of access to information laws around the world
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The number of years since Tara Singh Hayer was murdered. Hayer is the only journalist killed in Canada with impunity for doing his job. His murder case remains unsolved.
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The approximate number of signatures NWAC delivered to the House of Commons on Feb. 13, 2014, in support of a national public inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women
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The number of journalists imprisoned around the world, as of November 2014
The number of Aboriginal women murdered or missing in Canada between 1980 and 2012
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Afghanistan’s ranking out of 180 countries on the 2014 World Press Freedom Index
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Ukraine’s ranking out of 180 countries on the 2014 World Press Freedom Index
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BY ALEXANDRA ZAKRESKI
FOR OLEKSIY MATSUKA, BEING A JOURNALIST IS TIED TO A BROADER MISSION: “To do the most I can to democratize the region in which I live”—no small task in Donetsk, an area in Eastern Ukraine long plagued by government corruption and cronyism. Matsuka began working as an investigative journalist in 2010, digging into the activities and expenditures of local government officials and regional departments—a dangerous job, he quickly learned. “Every day from that point on, I was persecuted in some form,” he says. Over a three-year period, Matsuka launched a series of projects to fight censorship and corruption, strengthen independent journalism and civil society, and improve protections for Donetsk’s journalists: Novosti Donbassa, a regional news website; Donetskaya Pravda, a forum for investigating public officials and government spending; and Hromads’ke TV Donechchyny, a public television channel. Matsuka has routinely faced threats. In August 2011, arsonists barricaded his door, set his apartment on fire and left a condolence wreath; luckily, he was not at home. In September 2013, fingerprints of a man previously convicted of assault causing death were found following an attempted break-in at the Novosti Donbassa office, where Matsuka spent most of his time. The final straw came in April 2014: Matsuka’s car was torched, and flyers calling him a traitor and showing his picture circulated in Donetsk. He fled to Kyiv, where he continues to work as an investigative journalist. Although Ukraine approved laws in October 2014 to combat THE NUMBER OF corruption and reduce censorship and JOURNALISTS AND surveillance, Matsuka doubts they will MEDIA WORKERS change the political culture. “It’s up to KILLED IN UKRAINE IN 2014 (AS OF NOV. 15). us, as journalists, to do that,” he says.
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Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) BY ANGELA STERRITT
IT’S A HEART-WRENCHING STORY NOW ETCHED IN THE MINDS OF CANADIANS: more than 1,100 Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered across the country since the 1980s. The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has worked tirelessly to call attention to this issue. In 2004, NWAC launched Sisters In Spirit, an initiative aimed at raising awareness about and finding solutions to violence against Indigenous women in Canada. Over the next five years, NWAC recorded 582 Aboriginal women and girls who went missing or were murdered in Canada between 1960 and 2010. Its database helped build much-needed public outrage and led to calls for a national inquiry into the systemic violence against Aboriginal women. It also played a key role in spurring the RCMP’s investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women. “It was not just the small group at the office who were able to push this to a national platform,” says current president Michèle Audette. “It was a huge wave of people—volunteers, supporters and families, who had the courage to plant the first seeds and ultimately get the media calling us about Sisters In Spirit. When you add it all up, [this Vox Libera] Award will be shared for everyone who walks with us on the tragic issue.” CJFE’s Vox Libera Award honours THE NUMBER Canadians committed to advancing the OF UNSOLVED principles of free expression and access CASES OF to information. We thank NWAC for its ABORIGINAL tremendous work and for empowering WOMEN WHO WENT MISSING Canadians to create change. BETWEEN 1980 AND 2012.
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The full version of this article is online at CJFE.org/NWAC Award-winning broadcast journalist Angela Sterritt (@AngelaSterritt) recently became Massey College’s first Aboriginal William Southam Journalism Fellow.
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TARA SINGH HAYER MEMORIAL AWARD
BY KELLY CRICHTON
FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, award-winning journalist Kathy Gannon has chronicled the devastation that invasions, corruption, internal wars and Western blundering continue to have on the people of Afghanistan. Gannon first arrived in Afghanistan in 1986, having persuaded a radical mujahedeen group to let her travel with its fighters. Over time, her knowledge of and respect for Afghanistan’s culture and history, in turn, won her the respect of locals and leaders alike. In her reporting and her 2005 book, I is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror in Afghanistan, Gannon does not hesitate to speak truth to power. Among other accolades, she has received a Board of Governors’ Award from the National Newspaper Awards; the judges wrote: “Kathy Gannon of the Associated Press has covered Afghanistan longer than any other Canadian journalist. Throughout it all, she never stopped telling the story of the people of Afghanistan.” In April 2014, Gannon and her friend and colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, were reporting on the Afghan elections when they were attacked; Niedringhaus died instantly, and Gannon suffered six bullet wounds in the arm, shoulder and hand. Despite her traumatic AFGHANISTAN’S RANKING experience, Gannon plans to return to Afghanistan. “Anja OUT OF 180 COUNTRIES ON REPORTERS WITHOUT and I had the same belief in BORDERS’ 2014 WORLD the way to tell a story,” she PRESS FREEDOM INDEX. says. “Nothing made her happier, nothing made me happier, than to get out there and see for ourselves what was happening. We felt it was a privilege to be there.” Gannon’s courage in the face of danger and her dedication to the people of Afghanistan make her a role model for us all. For her, the Tara Singh Hayer Memorial Award is hugely significant. “It is a thrill to win an award that is Canadian and to be recognized by my peers.”
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Kathy Gannon
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Journalists Killed in 2014 EACH YEAR, CJFE COMPILES A LIST OF JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA WORKERS KILLED IN THE COURSE OF THEIR WORK. AS OF NOV. 17, THE TOTAL NUMBER IS 89. AFGHANISTAN Noor Ahmad Noori, radio producer • Nils Horner, foreign correspondent (Swedish) • Sardar Ahmad, journalist • Anja Niedringhaus, photojournalist (German) • Khalid Agha Yaqubi, journalist and producer • Palwasha Tokhi Meranzai, journalist BANGLADESH Shah Alam Sagar, journalist • Sadrul Alam Nipul, journalist BRAZIL Santiago Ilídio Andrade, cameraman • Pedro Palma, newspaper editor • Geolino Lopes Xavier, TV and radio presenter CAMBODIA Suon Chan, journalist • Taing Try, freelance journalist CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Camille Lepage, freelance photojournalist (French) • Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, radio journalist COLOMBIA Yonni Steven Caicedo, cameraman • Luis Carlos Cervantes Solano, radio director and journalist DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Kennedy Germain Mumbere Muliwavyo, TV journalist EGYPT Mohamed Helmy, freelance photojournalist • Mayada Ashraf, journalist GUINEA Facély Camara, radio journalist • Molou Chérif, radio technician • Sidiki Sidibé, radio technician HONDURAS Hernán Cruz Barnica, radio journalist • Nery Francisco Soto Torres, journalist INDIA Tarun Kumar Acharya, journalist • Shafat Sidiq, photojournalist (Kashmiri) IRAQ Firas Mohammed Attiyah, TV journalist • Muthanna Abdul Hussein, cameraman • Khaled Abdel Thamer, cameraman • Mohammed Bdaiwi Obaid alShammari, radio bureau chief • Kamran Najm Ibrahim, freelance photographer • Khaled Ali Hamada, cameraman • Leyla Yildizhan (Deniz Firat), freelance journalist • Raad al-Azzawi, cameraman • Muhanad Akidi, journalist LIBYA Miftah Bouzeid, newspaper editor • Tawfiq Faraj Ben Saud, radio journalist and activist MEXICO Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, journalist • Jorge Torres Palacios, journalist • Octavio Rojas Hernández, journalist • Atilano Román Tirado, radio journalist and activist • Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, citizen journalist • Antonio Gamboa Urías, journalist and editor MYANMAR Aung Kyaq Naing, freelance journalist PAKISTAN Shan Dahar (Odhor), TV journalist • Waqas Aziz Khan, broadcast technician • Abrar Tanoli, photographer and journalist • Irshad Mastoi, bureau chief • Ghulam Rasool Khattak, journalist • Yaqoob Shehzad, TV journalist PALESTINE Khaled Hamad, cameraman • Rami Rayan, photojournalist • Sameh Al-Aryan, journalist • Mohammed Aldeiri, photojournalist • Abdallah Fahjan, photojournalist • Simone Camilli, video journalist (Italian) • Ali Shehda Abu Afash, fixer PARAGUAY Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz Garay, radio journalist • Edgar Pantaleón Fernández Fleitas, radio journalist • Pablo Medina Velázquez, journalist PERU Donny Buchelli Cueva, radio journalist PHILIPPINES Rubylita “Ruby” Garcia, journalist • Nilo Baculo Sr., radio journalist RUSSIA Timur Kuashev, freelance journalist and activist SAUDI ARABIA Hussein Ali Madan Al-Faraj, photographer and cameraman SOMALIA Yusuf Ahmed Abukar (Yusuf Keynan), radio journalist SYRIA Maher Hasroumi, citizen journalist • Amin Abu Ahmad, citizen journalist • Sultan Al-Shami, citizen journalist • Omar Abdel Qader, cameraman (Lebanese) • Ali Mustafa, freelance photographer (Canadian) • Hamza Haj Hassan, journalist (Lebanese) • Mohamad Mantash, cameraman (Lebanese) • Halim Allaw, TV technician (Lebanese) • Mohammad Omar Khatib, journalist • Ahmed Hasan Ahmed, photojournalist (Egyptian) • Hazem Abu AlNawras, journalist • James Foley, freelance journalist (American) • Steven Sotloff, freelance journalist (American) • Mohammed al-Qasim, radio journalist UGANDA Mubiru Royce Kakebe, photojournalist UKRAINE Vyacheslav Veremyi, journalist • Vasily Sergiyenko, journalist • Andrea Rocchelli, photojournalist (Italian) • Igor Kornelyuk, journalist • Anton Voloshin, sound engineer • Anatoly Klyan, cameraman (Russian) • Andrei Stenin, journalist (Russian)
Remembering Bob Carty
CJFE is pleased to announce The Bob Carty Free Expression Fellowship, an annual grant for research projects and other activities that will further the cause of free expression in Canada. The fellowship will honour Bob’s legacy by continuing his work in defense of free expression. The search for candidates will begin in May 2015. A multi-award-winning journalist, an activist and a veteran CJFE board member, Bob was a tireless defender of press freedom and human rights. He was 64. “Bob was an inspiration, a mentor and a visionary to many journalists and human rights activists across the country,” says CJFE President Arnold Amber. “His work will leave a lasting legacy.” It started in the late 1960s, when Bob began his career as a researcher and an activist specializing in Latin America. He later moved to the region with his son, Michael, and his wife, Frances Arbour, who worked with refugees while Bob reported on military conflicts, human rights and ecological issues. In 1981, Bob joined CBC’s Sunday Morning as an on-air producer. He rose to foreign editor and senior
producer, creating work that won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Peabody, a Gabriel and numerous other awards for Sunday Morning, Morningside, The Current, The Globe and Mail and National Public Radio. He also received multiple awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, recognition from the Canadian Science Writers and the Amnesty International Canada trophy for human rights reporting. In 1991, Bob participated in a CJFE fact-finding mission to investigate attacks against journalists in Guatemala. Soon afterward, he joined CJFE’s board of directors and became one of the organization’s most active and visionary members. A leading contributor to CJFE’s work in Canada, Bob helped lead the fight for access-to-information reform, and he founded CJFE’s annual Review of Free Expression in Canada in 2009. Bob’s activism extended far
beyond Canada’s borders, as he was a strong advocate for free expression around the world. In 1992, he chaired a meeting of 14 international free expression groups, which led to the creation of IFEX, a global network of organizations dedicated to defending and promoting free expression. Since then, IFEX has grown to 95 organizations in more than 60 countries. “Bob’s contribution was critical to getting IFEX off the ground and shaping it into such a strong voice internationally,” says Amber. Bob was first stricken with cancer seven years ago, and despite the illness, he continued his work with CJFE. He was perhaps the most knowledgeable advocate in Canada on the subject of access to information, and he wrote numerous articles and reports, including A Hollow Right: Access to information in crisis, about the Canadian government’s failure in this
important area. Most recently, Bob was instrumental in preventing the passage of Bill C-461, which would have crippled investigative journalism at the CBC by forcing reporters to reveal their sources to the government. Bob’s passion extended beyond his journalism and free expression advocacy. A talented musician, he used songs to express his activist spirit. He started writing during the social upheaval of the 1960s, playing everywhere from coffeehouses to protests to Toronto’s Massey Hall. He played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and he often performed at a local Ottawa parish that, in his words, “supports music for the spirit, for the heart and for a more just world.” Few Canadians have given so much to the cause of free expression and press freedom. Bob’s passion, expertise and heartfelt desire to help others is irreplaceable, and he will be deeply missed.
Where Are They Now? BY ALEXANDRA ZAKRESKI
We caught up with five past CJFE International Press Freedom Award (IPFA) winners.
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2009 IPFA Winner
2011 IPFA Winner
Novaya Gazeta, Russia
Khaled al-Hammadi, Yemen
Press freedom has failed to improve in Russia since Novaya Gazeta was recognized by CJFE five years ago. Though in 2014 five men were found guilty of the 2006 murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya (pictured), it seems increasingly unlikely that the individuals who ordered her killing will be brought to justice. Meanwhile, new laws are suppressing free speech, impunity in attacks against journalists remains the rule and Novaya Gazeta continues to be aggressively targeted. On Oct. 10, 2014, the newspaper was slapped with a formal warning from Russia’s media watchdog, which says the paper violated anti-extremism laws. If Novaya Gazeta receives a second warning within a year, authorities can bar it from publishing. WEBSITE: en.novayagazeta.ru
After accepting his award from CJFE, Khaled al-Hammadi returned to Yemen and started a press freedom organization, Freedom Foundation, established in January 2012. An interim IFEX member, Freedom Foundation advocates for media freedom, rights and development, and tracks free expression violations and attacks on the media in Yemen—a highrisk country for journalists. Freedom Foundation tracked at least 52 violations against the media in the month after the Houthi rebels took control of Sanaa, the capital city, from Al-Qaeda militants in September 2014. Al-Hammadi has also launched Media Observatory, a project dedicated to monitoring professionalism, content and hateful rhetoric in the Yemeni partisan and private media. TWITTER: @KhaledHammadi
2012 IPFA Winner
2012 IPFA Winner
2013 IPFA Winner
Mae Azango, Liberia
Rami Jarrah, Syria
Ahmet Şık, Turkey
The international spotlight has been on Mae Azango’s native Liberia lately as one of the major sites of the Ebola outbreak. While Azango has been covering the epidemic, she has continued to report on female genital mutilation, and her recent work for FrontPage Africa also includes an investigative report about human trafficking and Liberian girls being sold into sexual slavery in Lebanon. In May 2014, Azango received the Press Union of Liberia Women’s Rights Award for her reporting on women’s issues. Unfortunately, the climate for free expression in Liberia is much the same as two years ago, with the “press still intimidated [on] some level,” she says. TWITTER: @MaeAzango
Citizen journalist Rami Jarrah continues to document the civil war that rages on in his home country two years after CJFE honoured his work. With the added threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it has become even more dangerous to be a journalist in Syria, yet Jarrah has relocated from Cairo to Aleppo. His project, ANA Press (formerly ANA New Media Association), has grown to a full-fledged media platform broadcast through ANA Web TV, a YouTube channel. ANA Press is a valuable source for international news agencies as they attempt to cover the Syrian civil war with extremely limited access. TWITTER: @AlexanderPageSY
In 2013, Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Şık was awaiting trial on charges of aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. His trial has since stalled as President Tayyip Erdoğan and exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen compete for political influence. But Şık has been busy. On May 3, 2014, World Press Freedom Day, he was awarded the 2014 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize—a nomination made by CJFE. In July 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Turkish government violated the human rights of Şık and Nedim Şener, another investigative journalist who was unjustly jailed, by infringing on their right to free expression and holding them for over a year in pre-trial detention. TWITTER: @sahmetsahmet
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2014 CJFE Photo Exhibit ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS (1965–2014)
AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS COVERED SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST TRAGIC CONFLICTS WITH REMARKABLE COURAGE AND A BEAUTIFUL ABILITY TO CAPTURE LIFE AMIDST DEATH. Never one to back down in the face of peril, she was covering election preparations in Afghanistan for the Associated Press (AP) when she was shot to death by an Afghan policeman in Khost on April 4, 2014; the attack also seriously wounded her longtime work partner, Kathy Gannon. Born in Höxter, Germany, Niedringhaus was a gifted photojournalist from a young age. Before finishing high school she’d begun working as a freelance newspaper photographer, and she continued freelancing for newspapers and magazines throughout university. After a decade at the European Press Photo Agency, she joined AP in 2002, where she was part of a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for its coverage of the Iraq War. Asked once why she took such extraordinary risks, she replied simply, “It’s what we do.”
CJFE proudly presents Anja Niedringhaus’s stunning photographs in the 2014 Photo Exhibit, sponsored by AP, Canon and the Toronto Star. All proceeds from the exhibit will go exclusively to CJFE’s Journalists in Distress Fund, which helps journalists whose lives and wellbeing are threatened.
CAPTIONS FOR NEXT PAGE
Hundreds of U.S. Marines gather at Camp Commando in the Kuwait desert for a visit from Santa Claus, Dec. 24, 2002. Courtesy AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
A U.S. Marine carries a mascot in his backpack for good luck as his unit pushes farther into Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2004. Courtesy AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
An Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. Courtesy AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
An Afghan woman holds her newborn baby, wrapped in her burka, at a shop in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 11, 2013. Courtesy AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
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