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24 Oct. 2020

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya talks democracy support with IMS and Danish CSOs

Yesterday Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarusian opposition leader and human rights activist, came to Copenhagen to receive a peace prize from a local newspaper and to talk to IMS and other Danish CSOs about the ongoing violations of human rights in Belarus.

Blog
23 Oct. 2020

Health risks for journalists reporting on Covid-19

Behind every article lies another story – that of the journalist who wrote it. Agnes von Unge reflects on journalists contracting Covid-19 while reporting

News
16 Oct. 2020

Still no justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia

On 16 October 2017, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta. Three years later we, the undersigned 19 international…

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