- front The objectives are to interact across a network to provide immediate response to attacks on journalists, promote and defend legal advice from journalists who need it and create and advocate for initiatives that benefit the work of journalists.
journalist Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa , keynote speaker at the ceremony, held up the front against threats to freedom of expression of journalists and aims meet a guild that often works against the aggressions of invertebrate way.
On the day of 61 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "there is nothing to celebrate, there is nothing to applaud," human rights in Mexico and in particular the right to freedom of expression and the right to life and journalists is not guaranteed . This was the atmosphere with dozens of organizations comprised of advocates and members of the journalists' union announced the creation of the National Front of Journalists for Free Expression (FNPLE). Listen to interview with Valvina Flores, representative of Reporters Without Borders in Mexico.
Journalists and united workers demand respect for freedom of expression
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Release Date: 2009-12-10
On the day of 61 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "there nothing to celebrate, there is nothing to applaud, "human rights in Mexico and in particular the right to freedom of expression and the right to life of the journalists is not guaranteed. This was the atmosphere with dozens of organizations comprised of advocates and members of the journalists' union announced the creation of the National Front of Journalists for Free Expression (FNPLE).
So far in 2009, 12 journalists have been killed for their work and at 9 years of federal government's National Action Party, now total 58 murders and nine missing journalists. 25 years, which was completed columnist Manual Buendia, the situation has worsened, "Today this phenomenon has increased and rose to leave a bloodstain all over the country," said Judith Calderon Gomez, general secretary Independent Trade Union of Workers of La Jornada (SITRAJOR), introducing the Front in a public ceremony at the monument to Francisco Zarco.
The event, attended and to representatives and members of the broad spectrum of journalists and journalists from Mexico, was settled the Front after 13 months of gestures and now serves as a link to the journalists to implement programs against attacks, a defense information network , provide legal advice when journalists are brought to court (this is supported by the National Association of Democratic Lawyers), create and promote legislative initiatives to protect the information role and establish a systematic campaign to raise awareness of the issue.
"Journalists do not have or want to have privileges" said Miguel Angel Granados Chapa- but we can organize to denounce the government inactivity then becomes impunity "and said the FNPLE" should permanently withdraw this government inaction. "
Prior to the presentation, founders of organizations like SITRAJOR this front, the National Union of Press Editors (SNTP), the union for Notimex, the Sol de Puebla, journalists from Contralínea Zocalo, among others, demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) to sue the attorney, Arturo Chavez Chavez, who is acting against a serious spate of attacks on journalists.
One delegation, Rogaciano led González Méndez, secretary of the interior of SNTP, presented this request in writing to the PGR, after in May 2009 this same letter was handed to the Special Prosecutor for Attention to Crimes Committed Against Journalists and its Once the owner promised to deliver to the Attorney and which until today no answer.
Parallel to the demonstration outside the PGR and then marched down Reforma Avenue to the monument to the journalist Francisco Zarco, the Federal District Legislative Assembly unanimously approved an agreement with the point that establishes a permanent table protection of journalists, building a house refuge for journalists from the interior of the country at risk, and the appointment in 2010 of Mexico City as the "city hospital and defesa of freedom of expression," said the asamblesita of the Democratic Revolution Party, Aleida Alavez Ruiz.
While attendees were looking a shadow of refuge from the intense sun, journalists from Guerrero, Puebla, Oaxaca and other states, explained the situation that holds freedom of expression in their states, while joined in this collective effort.
Members of FNPLE, carrying a red shirt with the words "free speech", received support from other organizations civil rights as the Fundación Manuel Buendía, the Information Center for Women (Cimac), Reporters Without Borders, Insyde, Press and Democracy, and labor organizations led by the Mexican Electricians Union (SME).
Among the complaints about the systematic impunity for crimes committed against journalists and the sense of cohesion in this new organization, he read the names of journalists who have lost their lives in their daily work and observed a minute of silence.