UNESCO session about judicial procedures to protect journalists, Sulaymaniyah

INA - BAGHDAD

UNESCO held a session and a special workshop for a project to break the silence and strengthen the governmental issue, which discussed judicial measures to protect journalists and combat impunity in the Kurdistan region.

"UNESCO held a new workshop in Sulaymaniyah, which included the second session of the project to break the silence and strengthen the governmental issue and judicial procedures to protect journalists and combat impunity," said the Director of the UNESCO Communication and Information Program, Diaa al-Saray, to the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

The session targeted the Human Rights Commission in Sulaymaniyah, the Journalists Syndicate, the Supreme Judicial Council, the Sulaymaniyah Court of Appeal, and the Ministry of Interior in Sulaymaniyah, in addition to a group of journalists and media professionals who attended independently.

During the session, they discussed "how to develop steps to establish a mechanism in the Kurdistan region to protect journalists, and these mechanisms will take into account the experience of the capital, Baghdad, from the publishing courts to the Special Investigation Unit to the digital reporting platform for women journalists, and all the steps that have been achieved in Baghdad to be confirmed, cited, and worked on in the region."

"There are many legitimate demands presented by journalists in this session, including updating the legal systems related to the right to access information and the right of the journalist in the Kurdistan region, to the rights of workers, journalistic work contracts, organizing journalistic and media work frameworks in the region, and digital and e-crimes," included the statement.