Int'l Conference on Promoting Safety of Journalists

*MEDIA INVITATION*

An international conference is planned in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 6-7, 2013 to highlight and raise awareness about a new UN Action Plan Against Impunity in five pilot countries, including Pakistan, with the objectives of building the country’s capacity to deal with safety of journalists and impunity issues.

The UN Plan of Action is expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks, as elsewhere, in Pakistan, and is aimed at lending international support for action against impunity, including strengthening efforts led by both

governments and the media sector and facilitating greater multi-stakeholder collaboration.  

The conference also will aim to link up media defence groups from Pakistan with their key international level counterparts to facilitate networking on solutions and ideas as well as inflow of international support, advocacy expertise and technical assistance for Pakistan’s media.  

The international conference seeks to bring together all key stakeholders from within Pakistan and key international media defence groups to discuss ways of combating the violence against media and journalists in the country and what best lessons from the world Pakistan can partly adopt.

The international conference is being supported by UNESCO with a number of other partners  including National and International Media development group.

Attending the conference will be a variety of Pakistani representative associations of media sector such as APNS, PBA, CPNE, PNAC and PFUJ and media support groups and, among others; the civil society representatives and mainstream political parties. Attending from outside Pakistan will be UN delegates as well as several international media support groups.

You are invited to attend the session on 7th March 2013, starting 9:30 am It's scheduled  to be in Kohinoor Hall, Marriot Hotel, Islamabad. Pakistan.

For more information please contact:

Phyza Jameel : p.jameel@unesco.org, Cell: 0321-4771462