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Fahmy Foundation has launched a film fund to help filmmakers produce and distribute short films that incorporate and focus on the following topics:
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Interested candidates will have the opportunity to pitch their stories to award-winning journalists and filmmakers affiliated with the Fahmy Foundation.
Our team of award-winning journalists and filmmakers will help you conceptualize, produce, and bring your film alive. The Fahmy Foundation will help fund the film and sponsor the filmmakers to travel inside Canada or overseas. Please send a message including your contacts and a representative will contact you with further instructions for submission. |
Our ProjectsRecent projects include presenting the 12-point Protection Charter with Amnesty International (Canada) in Ottawa to ensure greater advocacy for Canadians overseas.
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Our CampaignsFor imprisoned journalists, prisoners of conscience, and their families, our campaigns provide much-needed advocacy, public awareness and critical support.
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Take ActionGet involved in our campaigns, raise awareness, and help keep the voices of those unjustly imprisoned alive. Every contribution can make a big difference.
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Zehra DoganImprisoned in Turkey
Zehra Doğan, an ethnic Kurdish painter and journalist from Diyarbakır, Turkey, was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days in prison for posting a painting to social media.
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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe OoImprisoned in Myanmar
Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, face up to 14 years in prison after being charged by Myanmar authorities with violating the country's Official Secrets Act.
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German journalist Deniz Yücel has been released after a year in Turkish prisonDeniz Yücel, a German journalist detained in a Turkish prison for over a year without any charges being brought against him, has been released. Held on suspicions of membership in a terrorist organization, Yücel has returned to Germany after being freed on Feb.16, 2018.
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Mohamed Fahmy talks importance of Protection Charter on CBC Power & Politics
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Ethiopian journalist Woubshet Taye released after seven years of wrongful imprisonment |
Mohamed Fahmy and Amnesty International propose enshrining a new law to obligate government to defend the rights of Canadians imprisoned abroad1,376 Canadians are currently incarcerated abroad, many under oppressive regimes, held on trumped up charges and facing grave human rights violations. Fahmy’s work is fueled by his desire to protect other Canadian citizens from the horrors of his own experience: 438 days in an Egyptian jail for performing his job as a journalist. With more than five million Canadians outside of Canada at any one time, this issue is of national importance. Amnesty International is working alongside Fahmy to urge the Canadian government to enshrine in law the right for all Canadian citizens to receive consular assistance and equal treatment. Their proposed #protectioncharter is calling on the Liberal government to defend the rights of Canadians imprisoned abroad.
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Historic day for press freedom in Canada: Parliament Pass Press Shield LawAfter a yearlong campaign from CJFE, Fahmy Foundation, and others, the passage of Bill S-231 means that protections for confidential journalistic sources are now in place in Canada.
Bill S-231 amends the Canada Evidence Act to allow journalists to refuse disclosure for information or documents that identify or are likely to identify a journalistic source. By adopting the bill, the Canadian government has taken a strong stand for press freedom. It brings Canada closer into compliance with international standards for the protection of press sources. CJFE mobilized a global coalition of organizations on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, to send a joint letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling on his government to support the bill. Fahmy Foundation advocated for and was cosignatory to the letter to Trudeau and Liberal Government. READ MORE |
In response to Trump's fake news awards, CPJ announces Press Oppressors awardsIn response to Trump’s fake news awards, CPJ announces Press Oppressors awards. CPJ is recognizing world leaders who have attacked the press and undermined the norms that support freedom of the media. For the category of “Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom,” the winner is President Donald Trump of the United States. Trump also takes runner-up in "Most Thin-skinned."
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Fahmy Foundation partners with Amnesty International on multi-language #FreeTurkeyMedia worldwide campaign.According to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, Turkey is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world, detaining one-third of all imprisoned journalists globally, most still awaiting trial.
The Fahmy Foundation has partnered with Amnesty International on a multi-language #FreeTurkeyMedia worldwide campaign to raise awareness for this tragedy. READ MORE |
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2017: least deadly year for journalists in 14 yearsA total of 65 journalists (including professional journalists, citizen-journalists and media workers) were killed worldwide in 2017, according to Reporters Without Borders. Twenty-six of them were killed in the course of their work, the collateral victims of a deadly situation such as an air strike, an artillery bombardment, or a suicide bombing. The other 39 were murdered, and deliberately targeted because their reporting threatened political, economic, or criminal interests. As in 2016, most of the deaths were targeted (60%). The aim in each case was to silence them.
The 2017 death toll is a slight fall (-18%) from the 2016 figure (79). In the professional journalist category (50 this year), RSF notes that 2017 has been the least deadly year for professional journalists in 14 years. Twice as many women killed in 2017 Ten women journalists were killed this year, as compared to five last year. Many of the victims were experienced and determined investigative reporters with an abrasive writing style. Despite receiving threats, they continued to investigate and expose corruption and other cases involving politicians or criminal groups, and they paid for this with their lives. READ MORE |
Fahmy Foundation joins Reporters Without Borders and over 120 other organizations to endorse special envoy proposalIn an effort to provide protection for journalists working around the world, the Fahmy Foundation joined Reporters Without Borders and over 120 other organizations, calling on the United Nations to establish a special representative for the Safety of Journalists. Other prominent organizations and individuals joined the call, including Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO.
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Joining the fight against Bill C-51The Fahmy Foundation stands with human rights and advocacy organizations (like Amnesty International Canada, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the BC Civil Liberties Association) arguing that Bill C-51 could “seriously jeopardize the rights & freedoms of Canadians”.
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Fahmy Foundation urges PM Trudeau to endorse campaign for safety of journalistsOn November 2, 2016 Fahmy Foundation joined CJFE, Canadian organizations and media outlets urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lend his support to and publicly endorse the campaign to appoint a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the safety of journalists
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