{"id":276191,"date":"2019-05-16T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiPWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm9wZW5hY2Nlc3Nnb3Zlcm5tZW50Lm9yZy9qb3VybmFsaXN0LXNhZmV0eS82NTE4Ny_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:11","slug":"rights-groups-used-world-press-freedom-day-in-addis-ababa-to-call-for-a-un-envoy-on-journalist-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276191","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups used World Press Freedom Day in Addis Ababa to call for a UN envoy on journalist safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Open Access Government reported that the International Observatory of Human Rights used UNESCO\u2019s World Press Freedom Day events in Addis Ababa to call for a UN Special Envoy focused on journalist safety.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rights groups used World Press Freedom Day in Addis Ababa to call for a UN envoy on journalist safety\" \/>\n<p>Ethiopia hosted the global forum after a sharp rise in the Reporters Without Borders index following the release of jailed journalists under Abiy Ahmed. Panelists including formerly imprisoned Ethiopian journalists warned that a new hate-speech bill could again silence critics if drafted too broadly.<\/p>\n<p>The week mixed celebration of freer talk with reminders that journalists were still being killed and harassed worldwide, and that Ethiopia\u2019s earlier anti-terror and civil-society laws had been tools of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>As press-freedom archive, the file captures the hinge mood of 2019: more open microphones in Addis Ababa, and already a fear that new speech rules could rebuild the cage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openaccessgovernment.org\/journalist-safety\/65187\/\">Open Access Government<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Call for appointment of UN Envoy on journalist safety&nbsp;&nbsp;Open Access GovernmentInternational Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) calls for the appointment of a UN Special Envoy dedicated to journalist safety on World Press Freedom Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19QH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754790,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276191\/revisions\/754790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}