(Photo by Kyle Lam, HKFP) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is in solidarity with Selina Cheng, who has been fired by the Wall Street Journal for her involvement in and leadership of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. While the WSJ has pointed...
Statement | Julian Assange’s freedom is a victory for press freedom
(Photo credit from the International Federation of Journalists) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) joins press freedom advocates all over the world in welcoming the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after more than five years in...
12TH NATIONAL CONGRESS STATEMENT | NUJP to focus on online censorship and attacks, denial of access, and other threats to press freedom
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines will continue to call attention to press freedom violations, including online censorship, and will ramp up campaigns for the decriminalization of libel and for a better Freedom of Information mechanism in the next...
Statement | State actors involved in red-tagging – NUJP study
Defenders of red-tagging have often claimed that the practice does not happen, or that if it happens, it is not done by the government. Even President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in justifying the existence of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict,...
Statement | Not that remote or unrelated
(Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns Tel Aviv's closure of Al Jazeera's operations in Israel as a suppression of press freedom and of the people's right to information, especially on their own government's...
WPFD2024: FIGHTING FOR THE PRESS FOR THE PLANET
The extreme heat that is affecting the Philippines and the rest of the region is a clear warning of the ongoing climate crisis and the urgent need to address it. Ironically for a country that is considered among the most vulnerable to the effects of the crisis, our...
Statement | Actions speak louder than words
It's easy to believe Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s pronouncements about press freedom if killers of journalists have been brought to justice, if Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been released, if red-tagging has stopped, if libel has been decriminalized, if the order to block...
Statement | A challenge for government to do better
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines expresses its gratitude to Special Rapporteur Irene Khan for putting forward recommendations that aim to strengthen the protection of journalists and media freedom in particular, and freedom of expression in...
Statement | The truth about red-tagging
Criminalizing the practice of red-tagging – which is basically the vilification of dissent and of critical reportage – is up to Congress and there have been attempts to define the act in law. What Mr. Malaya and the NTF-ELCAC cannot deny is that red-tagging is a...