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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 <ref>[http://www.ned.org/dbtw-wpd/textbase/projects-search.htm]</ref>

==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." <ref>[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=10692]</ref>

==Principals==
*[[Robert Ménard]] -- Sec. General
*[[Lucie Morillon]] -- RSF rep in Washington DC
*[[Frank Calzón]] -- formerly a leader of Abdalas and the Cuban American National Foundation.
*[[Tala Dowlatshahi]], New York Director <ref>[http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/62481.htm]</ref>
*[[Todd Lester]] "worked with Reporters Without Borders to establish its New York communications desk." <ref>[http://www.freedimensional.org/about/index.html]</ref>
*[[Saleem Samad]] <ref>[http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/SaleemSamad.php]</ref>
*[[Vincent Brossel]]<ref>From Henry Jackson Society event announcement, North Korea's freedom agenda: How past example can lead to future resolution, 16 October 2008.</ref>

== 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: [http://www.rsf.org/ www.rsf.org]

==Affiliations==
*[[Arab Press Freedom Watch]]
*[[ Center for a Free Cuba]]
*[[Gulf Press Freedom Center]]
*[[Institute for War and Peace Reporting]]
*[[NED]]
*[[USAID]]

==External links==
*"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders Reporters Without Borders]", ''Wikipedia''.
* Serge Halimi, "[http://mondediplo.com/2001/08/04press France: his master’s voice]", ''Le Monde Diplomatique'', Aug 2001. (A concession by RSF's Robert Ménard).
* Al Giordano, "[http://www.narconews.com/letterwithoutborders1.html Open Letter to Robert Ménard of Reporters Without Borders]", ''Narco News, Latin America'', 29 July 2002.
*Thierry Deronne, [http://www.narconews.com/Issue25/article10.html The "Distorters Without Borders"], NarcoNews, 4 October 2002.
===2005===
*Salim Lamrani, "[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?sectionID=45&ItemID=7851 The Reporters Without Borders Fraud]", ''ZNet Magazine'', 13 May 2005.
*Diana Barahona, "[http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona05172005.html Reporters Without Borders Unmasked: Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy]", ''Counterpunch'', 17 May 2005.
*Diana Barahona, "[http://www.newsguild.org/gr/gr_display.php?storyID=2213 Government funds color press group’s objectivity]", ''The Guild Reporter'', 11 March 2005.
*"[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/20/2003255879/print Journalist watchdog accused of bias]", ''Taipei Times'', 20 May 2005.
*Marc Thibodeau, Disquieting Questions for RSF, La Presse (Montreal), 30 April 2005.
*Kristoffer Larsson, [http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/11/reporters-without-borders-there-is-no.html Reporters Without Borders: There is no occupation], PeacePalestine blog, 4 November 2005.
*Jean-Guy Allard, "[http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=24542 La Unión Europea renuente a investigar las dudosas relaciones de Reporteros Sin Fronteras]", ''Rebelion'', 22 Dec 2005 (in Spanish).
===2006===
*Carolina Cositore, "[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=9713 Reporters Without Britches: Reporters Without Borders Caught with Their Pants Down]", ''ZNet'', 12 February 2006.
*Diana Barahona and Jeb Sprague, "[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=10692 Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups]", ''Counterpunch'', 2 August 2006.
*Luciana Bohne, "[http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1207.shtml Ten anti-Castro "journalists" in South Florida on US government payroll]", ''Online Journal'', 15 September 2006.
*Luciana Bohne, "[http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=65&contentid=3910&page=2 Reporters Without Borders Financed by CIA]", ''Conspiracy Planet'', September 2006.
*Salim Lamrani, [http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11119&sectionID=21 Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions], ZNet, 5 October 2006.

===2007===
*Salim Lamrani, [http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=12419&sectionID=60 Cuba, the Internet and Reporters without Borders], Znet, 25 March 2007.
*Salim Lamrani, [http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13229&sectionID=45 Reporters Without Borders and RCTV], Znet, 5 July 2007.
*John Pilger and Amy Goodman, [http://fanonite.org/2007/06/08/pilger-on-reporters-without-borders-and-rctv/ Pilger on Reporters Without Borders and RCTV], Fanonite, 8 June 2007.
*Salim Lamrani, [http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=14224&sectionID=60 The deceit of Reporters Without Borders], Znet, 8 November 2007.

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