Международный фонд защиты свободы слова
The International Foundation for Freedom of Speech Protection
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On November 28, 2024, a roundtable in Astana marked the conclusion of the SJMED (Solutions Journalism in Medicine) project. This initiative was implemented by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech "Adil Soz", with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and ran from June to November 2024. The project's goal was to make journalistic materials on medical topics clear, engaging, useful, and reliable by employing the genre of solutions journalism.
The International Foundation for the Protection of Freedom of Speech "Adil Soz," in partnership with the British Embassy in Kazakhstan, is delighted to announce the launch of the Solutions Journalism Lab II. This initiative builds on the success of the original Solutions Journalism Lab, which ran from September 2023 to February 2024 and gained significant recognition.
The International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech"Adil Soz" expresses deep concern over the attack on Talgat Umarov, a journalist with the online publication Umarovnews.kz, which occurred on 20 November 2024 in the West Kazakhstan Regional Court building.
This case, or rather a series of cases, should be compiled into a teaching case for law faculty curricula and included in lectures on journalism law. In April 2023, the Constitutional Court ruled that media outlets have the constitutional right to publish photographs of individuals without their consent if the publication is conducted to protect the constitutional order, maintain public safety, safeguard human rights and freedoms, or preserve public health and morality.
Today, 4 November, the Inter-District Civil Court of Astana held closing arguments in the collective lawsuit filed by nine journalists against the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Ministry of Justice. The journalists are challenging several provisions of a new order that establishes the "Model Rules for Accrediting Journalists", arguing that these provisions are restrictive and unconstitutional.
