by admin | Jul 22, 2010 | Campaigns, international
At last week’s NEC meeting I read the following report given to me on the current state of Mordechai Vanunu, by his brother Meir. The 56-year-old, who spent 18 years in prison for revealing details of the country’s nuclear arsenal to the Sunday Times in 1986,...
by admin | Jul 4, 2010 | international, nuj, whistle blowing
The news that Mordechai Vanunu is now in solitary confinement in a prison unit set aside for violent prisoners is an outrage. Amnesty International has already declared him a prisoner of conscience and issued the following statement, and at the last meeting of the NUJ...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | Campaigns, international
This book is an important collection of articles, written by some of the leading specialists on lobbying transparency in Europe. It provides a revealing insight into how decisions are made in the EU and exposes the tools of the lobbyists trade. It also reveals how...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | international, nuj, unions
Report on the 2010 IFJ Congress – Cadiz, Spain – 25 -28 May Every three years, the International Federation of Journalists holds its annual congress. Affiliated unions elected their delegates and the NUJ elected ours at the last year’s general meeting in Southport....
by admin | May 13, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
On 16 February I blogged that the union had agreed to back a campaign of support for Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israel’s secret nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Earlier this week,...
by admin | Apr 18, 2010 | international
This weekend I should have been in Istanbul as part of the NUJ delegation to the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting. But along with two others I’m grounded. Only John Barsby, who had to leave a day earlier for a meeting of the steering committee,...
