Reporters without Borders

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Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, or RSF) is "an international non-governmental organization devoted to freedom of the press".

RWB/RSF is a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a virtual network of non-governmental organisations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and campaigns to defend journalists, writers and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.

Funding Sources

Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF's budget was primarily provided by "US organizations strictly linked with US foreign policy" (Thibodeau, La Presse).

  • NED (US$39,900 paid 14 Jan 2005)
  • Center for a Free Cuba (USAID and NED funded) $50,000 per year NED grant. Contract was signed by Otto Reich
  • European Union (1.2m Euro) -- currently contested in EU parliament
  • Rights & Democracy in 2004 supported Reporters Without Borders-Canada [1]

Principal focus of RSF activities

  • Cuba
  • Haiti
  • North Korea
  • Palestinian Occupied Territories
  • Venezuela

Otto Reich connection

"The man who links RSF to these activities is Otto Reich, who worked on the coups first as assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, and, after Nov. 2002, as a special envoy to Latin America on the National Security Council. Besides being a trustee of the government-funded Center for a Free Cuba, which gives RSF $50,000 a year, Reich has worked since the early 1980's with the IRI.'s senior vice president, Georges Fauriol, another member of the Center for a Free Cuba. But it is Reich's experience in propaganda that is especially relevant." [2]

Principals

Contact details

Reporters sans frontières
International Secretariat
5, rue Geoffroy-Marie
75009 Paris - France
Tel. 33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax. 33 1 45 23 11 51
E-mail : rsf@rsf.org
RSF Website: www.rsf.org

Affiliations

External links

2005

2006

2007

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  • From Henry Jackson Society event announcement, North Korea's freedom agenda: How past example can lead to future resolution, 16 October 2008.