CPJ, companions urge Guinea-Bissau to enhance press freedom forward of UN evaluate
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined two different press freedom organizations in calling on authorities in Guinea-Bissau to simply accept and implement suggestions to enhance its press freedom document on the nation’s January 2025 Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
The UPR is a peer evaluate mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council, via which the human rights data of the Council’s member states are reviewed each 4.5 years, and suggestions are made for enchancment.
Since January 2020, authorities in Guinea-Bissau have undermined press freedom via bodily and verbal assaults, arbitrary detention of journalists, and authorized harassment, in keeping with the October 2024 submission by CPJ, the native journalists’ union (Sinjotecs), and the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
The three organizations advocate that Guinea-Bissau enhance its press freedom document by investigating and making certain accountability for previous assaults on the press, ending arbitrary detentions and media shutdowns, repealing legal guidelines that criminalize journalism, and permitting the press to ascertain self-regulatory mechanisms.
(CPJ)
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