Truth without boundaries.
(www.rsf.org)
By Ashish Dimri
Journalists are known to be saviour of truth and
justice. As a result, they are often harassed by hard times. They become victims of state repression and suffer physical and financial hardships. Reporters Sans Frontiers is an organization that works for their upliftment in trying times.
RSF is an organization that does not discriminate against race, creed, and culture.
From time to time, it has raised its concern on various issues related to safety and welfare of newspersons working in hostile circumstances.
Journalists face many untoward circumstances in their life. Often trying their best to bring out truth before masses, they earn ire of establishments. Many are physically assaulted; many lose their jobs for being a saviour of the unspoken sections of society.
Reporters Sans Frontiers runs a website to inform about journalists who are under detention for speaking up the truth. It is website informs that there are around hundred journalists who in prisons across the world for trying to bring out facts to their readers.
RSF has a network of hundred journalists to uphold
freedom of press. It ensures that murderers and torturers of journalists are brought to book.
This upholder of press freedom :
-Provides complete reports on cases covered in the press.
-Answers your questions about Blogs the new form of social media.
-Readers can learn how to set up a blog and how to make it popular.
RSF has also introduced insurance cover for freelancing journalists.
Readers can also support this organisation by signing online petitions of detained journalists who need release from hostile conditions.
In simple words, this website must be read by all because freedom of press means freedom of expression.
This informative website reminds us that pen is always mightier than sword!
RSF has international secretariat at
Reporters Sans Frontiers
5,rue Geoffrey-Marie
75009,Paris, France
www.rsf.org
(Ashish Dimri, a freelancing journalist wrote this review)