![]() ![]() The conference was attended by IFJ President Jim Boumelha, along with representatives from a number of IFJ affiliates, including Franco Siddi, General Secretary of the FNSI, Tim Shafir, from the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), and Oleksii Boiko, from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). Since the motion was passed, IFJ has issued a number of statements condemning the actions of Golden Dawn members against Greek journalists, including an attack against STAR TV journalist Panagiotis Bousis Boussios who was beaten up while filming a protest in Iraklion Athens suburb. In the motion Congress instructed IFJ's incoming Executive Committee to "initiate an "International Watch Against Spreading Racist Hate" (IWASRH), in order to record, denounce and campaign against Neo-Nazi and Neo-Fascist actions which target investigative journalism, journalists, media organizations, IFJ members and other civil society organizations and activists." Plans to launch the project were agreed in an urgent motion passed at IFJ's World Congress in June last year in which all of IFJ'S Greek affiliates noted the terror campaign being carried out by the Golden Dawn ne-Nazi organisation party against media workers in Greece. ![]() The high profile meeting also considered the prospect of the IFJ helping Greek unions create an international media project aiming on informing and activating society against Nazism, Fascism and Racism. ![]() Organised by the Cultural Foundation of the Journalists Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, the two-day conference, which ran from 14-15 March, examined " The role of media and journalists on the rise of neo-Nazism, Fascism and Racism in Greece, Europe and all over the world." The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) attended a major conference last weekend to discuss the role journalists can play in the fight against neo-Nazism, Fascism and Racism in Greece, Europe and around the globe. ![]()
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