Monthly Archives: February 2018

AEJ-Bulgaria Annual Report measures rise in threats and pressures on the media

Source: Association of European Journalists / AEJ / News By Irina Ned, AEJ-Bulgaria AEJ – BULGARIA REPORT ON THE STATE OF JOURNALISM AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN 2017 AEJ-Bulgaria’s annual report on the media and free expression in Bulgaria in … Continue reading

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European journalists and civil society groups share strategies to ‘Free European Media’ in Gdansk

Source: Association of European Journalists / AEJ / News By William Horsley, AEJ-UK European journalists and civil society groups share strategies to ‘Free European Media’ in Gdansk The European Federation of Journalists, the Council of Europe and 200 practitioners of … Continue reading

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Nokia Launches Blockchain-Powered IoT Sensing as a Service for Smart Cities

Source: Bitcoin Magazine / News by Giulio Prisco Nokia is launching a set of services, based on Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, and blockchain technologies, for economically and environmentally sustainable “smart cities.” In the emerging IoT, billions of connected … Continue reading

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Turkey moving away from rule of law – The sentencing of five Turkish journalists to life imprisonment shows that the Turkish judiciary cannot make independent decisions

by Otmar Lahodynsky, President of Association of European Journalists (AEJ) The release on bail of Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German daily Die Welt, after being held for a year without charge in a high-security prison, cannot be taken … Continue reading

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Safeguarding space for nature and securing our future: developing a post-2020 strategy

Source: Institute of Zoology / ZSL.org / Scientific Events The challenge We are rapidly losing Earth’s wild species and wild spaces, with global vertebrate populations having declined by two-thirds by in the last 40 years. Under the Strategic Plan for … Continue reading

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Should we give up half of the Earth to wildlife?

Source: The Guardian / Environment / Wildlife Populations of all kinds of wildlife are declining at alarming speed. One radical solution is to make 50% of the planet a nature reserve The orangutan is one of our planet’s most distinctive … Continue reading

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