{"id":477,"date":"2022-04-14T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nujbranch.eu\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T11:36:56","slug":"journalists-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Journalists under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international fact-finding mission led by the Amsterdam-based Free Press Unlimited has concluded that the increased polarisation of Dutch society, and threats from organised crime, pose a considerable risk to the safety of journalists working in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While overall the Netherlands remains a safe haven of independent media, ranking 6<sup>th <\/sup>&nbsp;in Reporters Without Borders\u2019 World Press Freedom Index, more needs to be done to protect journalists amid increasing threats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepressunlimited.org\/en\/current\/new-report-confirms-safety-journalists-netherlands-declining\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The report<\/a>, released yesterday, recommends: improving education and understanding of the motives people hold for harassing journalists; understanding the role of journalists during demonstrations better; and protecting journalist better who receive threats from criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country\u2019s pioneering Pers Veilig mechanism for reporting and prosecuting threats is cited as an example of best practice for improving journalists\u2019 safety. The report states it: \u201cconstitutes a laudable example of a constructive cooperation and dialogue between the journalistic community and state authorities\u201d. But improvements could be made, including a consistent implementation of the agreed protocols by the police, such as the recognition of press cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There also needs to be a mechanism for gathering data on threats to women journalists who are targeted more frequently in social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, 272 alerts of harassment, intimidation and violence against journalists were recorded by PersVeilig, as opposed to 121 in 2020. Demonstrations are a particularly prominent context in which media freedom violations and attacks on journalists take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecpmf.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Towards-a-safer-haven-Advancing-safety-of-journalists-amidst-rising-threats-in-the-Netherlands.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international fact-finding mission led by the Amsterdam-based Free Press Unlimited has concluded that the increased polarisation of Dutch society, and threats from organised crime, pose a considerable risk to the safety of journalists working in the Netherlands. While overall the Netherlands remains a safe haven of independent media, ranking 6th &nbsp;in Reporters Without Borders\u2019&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuj-netherlands.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}