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Safety policy: Creating a safe working environment for journalists

Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2024), 13 pp.
"In the next five years, Free Press Unlimited will work towards the following five goals to enhance the safety of media professionals:
1. Media professionals supported by Free Press Unlimited programmes are able to deal effectively with interference and threats at a physical, digital, legal and psycho-social level.
2. The majority of Free Press Unlimited’s partners makes demonstrated efforts to address safety in the context of their work (awareness, organisational safety policies, protocols etc.); particular attention will be given to the different safety needs of male and female workers.
3. All staff members of Free Press Unlimited understand the importance of holistic safety, are able to use relevant instruments and tools to enhance safety in their work, and share this information with their partners.
4. All Free Press Unlimited lobby and advocacy interventions relating to safety are aimed at collaboration and solidarity with key stakeholders – to enforce and implement national and international conventions and resolutions – and at holding national governments and judiciaries to account for investigating, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of crimes against journalists.
5. All of Free Press Unlimited’s external communication takes into account the safety of those mentioned and demonstrates the organisation’s commitment to increasing journalist safety." (Page 10)
A comprehensive approach to safety, 5
Safety as precondition for a healthy media environment, 7
Free Press Unlimited’s goals for media safety, 10
Free Press Unlimited’s safety standards, 11
Monitoring and Evaluation, 13