Raul Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist and analyst. Until February 2017, he was the Editor of Fides, a bolivian news agency (ANF) and currently he is a Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, in Washington DC. Peñaranda was founding director of three newspapers: Nueva Economía (1993 ), La Época (2001) and Página Siete (2010),…
Nikahang launched Khodnevis.org, a collective news website, in December 2009 in order to continue the fight for freely reported news and information and “to give a voice to the voiceless.”
Executive Director of Media Rights Agenda. Media Rights Agenda (MRA) was established in 1993 as an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization for the purpose of promoting and protecting the right to freedom of expression, media freedom, access to information as well as digital rights and freedoms.
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) provides legal aid to journalists who are prosecuted as a result of their work. MLDI does this by administering an emergency defense fund, helping journalists, bloggers and independent media pay legal fees, and provides legal expertise to the lawyer(s) defending a case. MLDI also takes strategic litigation at regional and…