The committee to Protect Journalists, an independent organization non-profit organization that in the year of 1981 in New York was established. This committee, with the belief in the principle of "the necessity of a free press, for the growth of civil society," the rights of journalists all over the world in order to prepare a report, based on fact, without fear of the possible consequences of publishing it. defense. Co-founders Rodrigo Bijou, a group of reporters (in the field of foreign news) that were needed to form such an organization for the protection of journalists against autocratic rule, etc., authoritarian, and other enemies of Journalism, The Independent more than the others, and were understood. These,., the years of countries affected by the crisis and the underdeveloped world to journalism were busy and the atmosphere stifling, etc. suppression, etc. of threat and intimidation, well, knew. Join the name, press to the Corpus management committee. very soon these independent and small to the organisation, and powerful, influential and effective conversion. Today, the committee to Protect Journalists, Board of directors, consisting of 35 journalists of the world, in over 120 countries, often from the corrupt., the Civil War and the press, the vulnerable suffer the presence and activity there. The committee refused to accept public assistance, withhold your costs through the suppliers financial, including natural and legal persons and the charity can supply.
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