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The Final Session of HRinfo's Fourth Workshop
The Journalists calls upon HRinfo to Organize Workshops to discuss Journalists' Ways of Team Planning to Defend their Vocational Rights

Cairo - 26 May 2007

On Thursday, May 24, 2007, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) finished its fourth workshop on training journalists and human rights' activists on how to use the internet and respect human rights' values in press articles. The workshops held for six sessions with the participation of 24 trainers.

The trainers from the printing press journalists, bloggers and activists all discussed the effect of blocking information from journalists and security apparatuses' adoption of some laws in order to fabricate cases for them.

Moreover, the trainers discussed the right to syndic pluralism to solve non-syndicated journalists' problems and criticized the syndicate sole role, which is giving permission to workers in this profession instead of protecting its members' rights.

The workshop's positive results were removing the trainers' well-known wrong misunderstanding about considering human rights a result for the western civilization culture. However, the main issues of discussion concentrate on human rights' worldwide movement, the Arab experts participated in putting the World Declaration for Human Rights and underlined the fact that the people declaring these phrases, encourage practicing these violations without combating it.

The trainers in this session call for holding workshops for journalists to improve their writing skills and ways to document information in accordance with human rights' standards, in addition to discussing the vocational rights for syndicated and non-syndicated journalists from a legal perspective.

The workshop carried the following subjects:
  • Giving a definition to the internet in general, its importance to activists and the best way to use it - the speaker: Ahmed Gharbia, "blogger and technology professional"
  • The start of human rights' movement and international conventions' obligations - the speaker: Mahmoud Qandil, "lawyer and human rights' trainer"
  • Online journalism and reinforcing issues of freedom of thought and expression - the speaker: Alaa Seif, "blogger and technology specialist"
  • Internet safe using - the speaker: Ahmed Gharbia, "blogger and technology specialist"
  • Basics of press writing and the respect to human rights' standards - the speaker: Ibrahim Mansour, "journalist and blogger"
  • How to provide protection for non -syndicated journalists and online journalists - the speaker: Gamal Eid, "lawyer and human rights' activist"
Recently, HRinfo is preparing for the fifth workshop, held on June 2007.

For participation, please send us on http://www.hrinfo.net/contact

Notice: Please write in the title "participation in the workshop of training journalists".

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