In the past six (6) months of 2008, a large number of Somali journalists and other media workers were subjected to various methods of violence and oppression such as harassment, killing, professional punishment, beatings, threats, arrests, arbitrary detention, maltreatment and censorship. Continue Reading »
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1980 – 2008: Nasteh Dahir Farah
“From Allah We Came and to Him is our Eventual Return”
UN Security Council Receives Somali Journalists’ Call for Safety, Protection and Press Freedom
3rd. Jun 2008
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today submitted to the members of United Nations Security Council who are in Djibouti to meet Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia a note expressing deteriorating situation of media freedom and safety of journalists, which was created by Somalia’s increasingly violent political climate. Continue Reading »
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today congratulated its affiliate the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) on receiving the Democracy Courage Award on behalf of Somali journalists from the World Movement for Democracy (WMD).
At a ceremony held during the fifth assembly of World Movement for Democracy (WMD) in Kiev, Ukraine, which is a global network of democrats including independent journalists, trade unionists, business leaders, religious leaders, human rights activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy, honoured the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) at an award ceremony today with the presentation of the Democracy Courage Tribute on behalf of Somali Journalists.
Twenty senior journalists from southern and central regions of Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland participated in a Nairobi workshop organized by UNESCO and National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) with the support of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) from 26th to 30th March 2008.
NUSOJ has released a report on the new media law that was passed by Somalia’s Transitional Federal Parliament on 8 December 2007.
Global Free Expression Community Call For End to Repression of Journalists, Revision of Somali Media Law
21st. Feb 2008
Twenty-eight national, regional and international free expression organizations appealed to Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein to use his leadership position to truly protect journalists’ and media workers’ safety by investigating attacks on journalists to end the current culture of impunity. The joint action was led by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and other members and partners of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX).
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has expressed outrage at the targeted shooting of a journalist Abdikheyr Mohammed Jama of Radio Galkayo in Puntland by unknown assailants on Thursday, 10 January.
