The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the announcement that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the establishment of a Wage Board for working journalists and other media workers working for the country?s newspapers saying it is recognition of the ?key role decent working conditions play in building quality media.?
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today reiterated calls for urgent action to protect journalists as the killings of an Iraqi cameraman and a sound technician working for ABC News who were kidnapped and found dead on Friday signalled that 2007 will be another record year for media deaths ? with 33 deaths in Iraq already this year.
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Militant farmers mulling to file charges against 56th IB
MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) hit the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for delaying the investigation on the abduction of KMP member Jonas Burgos and not fully cooperating with the Burgos family.
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NEW YORK ? The Chinese government should
immediately lift the house arrest and travel restrictions imposed on Hu Jia
and Zeng Jinyan, a prominent husband-and-wife team of human rights
activists arrested on Friday, Human Rights Watch said today.
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MANILA — All roads lead to the Philippine International Convention Center tomorrow, May 23, as a broad array of groups continue to protest what they described as ?a rising trend of fraud favoring the administration.?
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