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SUMMARY:ExPRESSion RePRESSion: Expert panel on international efforts to pr
 otect journalists at risk - Panel of experts (various)
DTSTART:20120302T123000Z
DTEND:20120302T140000Z
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:Why are journalists finding it even more difficult to perform 
 their job in the modern age of information dissemination? In what ways are
  they repressed or targeted in their work? What is the role of the state i
 n impunity for the perpetrators of violence against journalists? And how c
 an we stop this?\n\nThese questions will be discussed in a public event or
 ganised by Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) with a
 n expert panel:\n\n* Christof Heyns\, United Nations Special Rapporteur on
  extrajudicial\, summary or arbitrary executions\n* Pansy Tlakula\, Specia
 l Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information\, African 
 Commission on Human and People's Rights\n* Frank La Rue\, United Nations S
 pecial Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom 
 of opinion and expression\n* Joel Simon\, Executive Director\, Committee t
 o Protect Journalists. \n* Celia Davies\, former Cambridge graduate and Pr
 ogram Development Manager at Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety\,
  Azerbaijan\n\nModerator: William Horsely\, former BBC correspondent\, UK 
 Chairman\, Association of European Journalists\n\nChair: Sharath Srinivasa
 n\, Director\, Centre of Governance and Human Rights\n\nTestimonies from t
 he field will be combined with discussion\, debate and a presentation by C
 hristof Heyns on recent research conducted by Cambridge's CGHR for the Spe
 cial Rapporteur\, and its role in his next report to the Human Rights Coun
 cil on the Safety of Journalists.
LOCATION:SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site
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