Afghanistan
IMS is working in Afghanistan with a network of national and international partners to support safety and protection of media and media workers and to improve professional practices. Support includes training of Afghan journalists on how to increase personal safety as well as improving their skills in conflict sensitive reporting.Archive
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- The Taliban are winning the media war
- Afghan journalist calls on world to put an end to attacks on Afghan media
- Taleban attacks inflame Anti-Western feelings
- Afghan journalists reporting from the frontline
- Karzai faces anger in Marja
- Taleban defiant following Marja operations in Helmand
- Military swoop disappoints Marja people
- Afghans critical of presence of US security forces
- Civilian death claims in Helmand swep
- Afghans suspect foreign hand in poll delay
- Insequrity cause educational crisis in Helmand
- taleban raids show new battle tactics
- Taleban buying guns from warlords
- Living dangerously - safety of journalists in war
- Held in Taliban captivity - a real life story
- "The danger starts after the election"
- Working and surviving in the world's most dangerous hot spot
- New media scene in Afghanistan
New media scene in Afghanistan
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Following resurgence in fighting in Afghanistan during fall 2007, IMS is re-engaging in supporting local media
The Afghan mass media have passed through drastic changes since the overthrow of the Taleban regime and the establishment of a democratic ly elected government.
Under the former regime the media were suppressed in conformity with the ideology of the Taleban, with radio programming dedicated to religious content and television simply being illegal.
Today a different media environment exists, with several new and more diverse broadcast and print media. Nevertheless, a number of challenges remain, in particular in relation to the safety of journalists and pressures on independent media.
Exit Taleban - enter IMS
IMS has supported media initiatives in Afghanistan since the Taleban regime fell in 2001. Three weeks into the US-led war in Afghanistan during that year, IMS together with Article 19 and the Baltic Media Centre fielded a mission to the Afghan exile community in Pakistan to assess the possibilities for support to the Afghan media community. The mission lead to a number of initiatives, including the development of radio productions, which lead to the program “Good Morning Afghanistan”, managed by Baltic Media Centre in the first year, as well as safety training for Afghan journalists which was managed in collaboration with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). To this day, “Good morning Afghanistan” continues to be transmitted through the state-owned Radio Afghanistan.
IMS has also been involved in supporting the process for establishing a national association of journalists. This was done together with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) with support from the Danish Embassy in Kabul. These activities culminated in June 2005 with the formal establishment of The Afghan Independent Journalist’s Association (AIJA), where a founding general assembly was organized.
Identifying future activities
Due to the resurgence in fighting in parts of the country in 2007, IMS decided to re-engage in Afghanistan, fielding an assessment mission in fall, 2007. As a result of this mission, IMS will undertake an identification and prioritization process, which will form the basis for the design and launch of future activities in Afghanistan.
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