Issue 01, November 2009 - January 2010

Editorial  |   The lotus position  |   The canary in the coalmine  |   Zapped  |   The dark side of the sun  |   Who killed Deyda Hydara?  |   No quick fix  |   Caseload  |   Roque Solid

Long walk to freedom...

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Editorial
So who needs another freedom NGO?

Article 19, Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Index on Censorship... there's no shortage of NGOs ...

The lotus position
Tesco in Thailand

Some months ago Britain's largest retailer, Tesco, attracted unfavourable publicity because of three defamation cases launched against ...

The dark side of the sun
What the tourists don't see

For thousands of tourists each year, the Gambia is a sunlit paradise of beaches, warm sea and wildlife. They rarely glimpse its dark side...

Roque solid
Rebel with a cause

Harry Roque may have missed his vocation - to be a "rebel in the mountains". Instead, he stayed down in the city and became one of...

Caseload
Some of our work so far

 

"It is a truism that, outside a handful of countries blessed with robust press freedom, journalists around the world face huge risks."