Reporters without Borders

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

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."

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
• Todd Lester "worked with Reporters Without Borders to establish its New York communications desk."
• Saleem Samad
• Vincent Brossel

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

• Arab Press Freedom Watch
• Center for a Free Cuba
• Gulf Press Freedom Center
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• NED
• USAID

External links

• "Reporters Without Borders", Wikipedia.
• Serge Halimi, "France: his master’s voice", Le Monde Diplomatique, Aug 2001. (A concession by RSF's Robert Ménard).
• Al Giordano, "Open Letter to Robert Ménard of Reporters Without Borders", Narco News, Latin America, 29 July 2002.
• Thierry Deronne, The "Distorters Without Borders", NarcoNews, 4 October 2002.

2005

• Salim Lamrani, "The Reporters Without Borders Fraud", ZNet Magazine, 13 May 2005.
• Diana Barahona, "Reporters Without Borders Unmasked: Its Secret Deal with Otto Reich to Wreck Cuba's Economy", Counterpunch, 17 May 2005.
• Diana Barahona, "Government funds color press group’s objectivity", The Guild Reporter, 11 March 2005.
• "Journalist watchdog accused of bias", Taipei Times, 20 May 2005.
• Marc Thibodeau, Disquieting Questions for RSF, La Presse (Montreal), 30 April 2005.
• Kristoffer Larsson, Reporters Without Borders: There is no occupation, PeacePalestine blog, 4 November 2005.
• Jean-Guy Allard, "La Unión Europea renuente a investigar las dudosas relaciones de Reporteros Sin Fronteras", Rebelion, 22 Dec 2005 (in Spanish).

2006

• Carolina Cositore, "Reporters Without Britches: Reporters Without Borders Caught with Their Pants Down", ZNet, 12 February 2006.
• Diana Barahona and Jeb Sprague, "Reporters Without Borders and Washington's Coups", Counterpunch, 2 August 2006.
• Luciana Bohne, "Ten anti-Castro "journalists" in South Florida on US government payroll", Online Journal, 15 September 2006.
• Luciana Bohne, "Reporters Without Borders Financed by CIA", Conspiracy Planet, September 2006.
• Salim Lamrani, Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions, ZNet, 5 October 2006.

2007

• Salim Lamrani, Cuba, the Internet and Reporters without Borders, Znet, 25 March 2007.
• Salim Lamrani, Reporters Without Borders and RCTV, Znet, 5 July 2007.
• John Pilger and Amy Goodman, Pilger on Reporters Without Borders and RCTV, Fanonite, 8 June 2007.
• Salim Lamrani, The deceit of Reporters Without Borders, Znet, 8 November 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.