::Iraqi Media Safety Group ( IMSG) declaring 627 عدد مرات القراءه
Press communique
The idea of founding the Iraqi Media Safety Group was crystallizing during the Iraqi Journalist Safety Conference which was held in Arbil on the 10th and the 11th of May 2007, in which the discussion concentrated on the issues of the safety and security of Iraqi journalist and their supporter in the media field, as an essential condition to build a professional journalist system, provide a collective exchange of information, continuity and to secure the participation of all media establishments in all the activities and actions which share in digging strategies narrowing the threats of journalist.
The IMSG is completely concerned to work on achieving many aims including: censoring and watching all threats and actions against Iraqi journalist, and the continuous coordination with concerned governmental authorities to support journalist safety measures, helping media institutions to developetheir safety measures for their employees, collecting and distributing all information that helps journalists to secure their safety and limiting the dangers facing them, and providing advices necessary to guarantee their safety in the way to/ from work and when they are on assignment. The IMSG will be keen to evaluate the threats which the Iraqi journalists are facing in their daily mission and to treat them in a way to provide their safety.
The IMSG is a formation contains the representatives of many Iraqi media institutions, Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and Kurdistan Journalist Syndicate, who were met in Arbil on the invitation of International Federation of Journalists ( IFJ) in May 2007 to discuss the necessary measures to getting better Iraqi journalist safety conditions.
The IFJ and LOTCO are financing the foundation of IMSG and they provide support to its activities.
The IMSG, on its side, is interested to work to finance its activities from Iraqi national sources paid by Iraqi private and public sectors.
Baghdad on 22nd 2007
The Group site: www.iraqmsg.org
E-mail:info@iraqmsg.org
Mobile: 07806323890
