One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Uganda’s Slippery Media Landscape in 2024
The Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRNJ-Uganda), a proud member of the Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), has released the 2024 edition of its Press Freedom Index (PFI). Titled “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Slippery Media Landscape,” the report paints a sobering picture of Uganda’s press environment, exposing a troubling rise in restrictions, […]
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Unveiling Gender Realities of Journalists’ Safety in East Africa 2023
Secrecy is the freedom zealots dream of: no watchman to check the door, no accountant to check the books, no judge to check the law. The secret government has no constitution. The rules it follows are the rules it makes up”, U.S. journalist Bill Moyers commented in 1987 in regard to the secrecy of government […]
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