UNESCO is the lead UN Agency for promoting freedom of expression and safety of journalists as part of its mandate to “promote the free flow of ideas by word and image”.
PhD in Sociology, president of RESIS Institute at Research Institute on Social Development - RESIS, North Macedonia , North Macedonia
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Our organization – RESIS Institute, is the Lead Research organization of the regional platform https://safejournalists.net/ which gathers journalists’ associations from seven Western Balkans countries. The Platform was established in 2016, when we developed the Indicators for the level of media freedom and journalists’ safety, a common methodology for assessing the situation in the WB countries. It is an advocacy research project that has been used by the journalists’ associations as a tool for initiating various advocacy activities to improve the situation with media freedom and journalists’ safety in their countries. In 2019 we have developed a separate methodology for measuring the legal and institutional environment for journalists’ safety as well as the actual safety of journalists in these countries – it is a composite indicator Western Balkans Journalists’ Safety Index. The first (baseline) year was 2020, and now we are working on assessing the situation in 2022. https://safejournalists.net/safety-index/
Skopje, North Macedonia
