DOHA: Wadhah Khanffer, Director of Al Jazeera, announced an initiative to protect and reinforce rights of Al Jazeera staff in collaboration with various international human rights organisations.
The initiative is to be conducted and followed up by the public freedom department and human rights department. Al Jazeera aims to plan and launch campaigns to defend its staff across the globe by following up with their problems with regional and international human rights organisations.
The initiative will coordinate training programmes and development sessions in vocational and safety to help at disaster zones, armed conflicts, and other places of domestic unrest. It will also coordinate guidance programmes in raising awareness about human rights and humanitarian laws. The new initiative has been launched at a time when reporters throughout the world are facing many threats.
Since eruption of the so called radiant revolution spring, Al Jazeera staff was victims to detention, physical harassment and torture in Egypt, Yemen and Libya. Also in Syria, they were, under threats by many messages online.
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