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Izvještaj Skupštine EFJ-a o medijskim slobodama i radnim pravima na Balkanu

08.06.2015.

Godišnja skupština EFJ-a, održana u Budvi 2. lipnja 2015., prihvatila je Izvještaj o medijskim slobodama i radnim pravima u zemljama na Balkanu. Donosimo ga u cijelosti.

EFJ Annual Meeting (AM)

Budva, 2nd June, 2015
 
The Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) with 47 affiliated organisations from 33 European countries on 2nd June, 2015 has adopted the following statement:   

On media freedom and labour rights in the Balkans

The Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), meeting in Budva, Montenegro on 2nd June 2015,

Noting the increased physical threats and intimidation against journalists and impunity in the Balkans;

Concerned about the increased lack of respect for journalists\' and media workers\' right by the employers on decent salaries, fair remuneration for freelances, trade union rights and the rights to collective bargaining;

Condemning the physical attack of the Croatian investigative journalist Željko Peratovic, who was beaten on the door step of his home. The attack took place a few days ago and the perpetrators have been found but there is still not a clear motive why the journalist was attacked;

Nothing that because of investigative texts on suspicious activities of individuals from Montenegro eight years ago journalist Tufik Softic was brutally beaten and since then nothing has been done to reveal the perpetrators and the persons that ordered this. Two years ago in his backyard a bomb was thrown and this case is still not resolved. Softic is under constant police protection now since a year and a half.

Calls on the EFJ and its Steering Committee:

•    To request the Croatian government to speed up the investigation for the case of Željko Peratovic and to make sure that the perpetrators are punished;
•    To request the government of Montenegro to solve these cases and to make possible that journalists in Montenegro can work within a safe working environment;
•    To encourage national authorities to bring justice to journalists who are attacked and intimidated;
•    To support the EFJ affiliates from the region to organise collective activities including strikes to protect their rights, to call on media companies and employers to respect rigorously trade union rights, to provide proper working conditions and to respect fully the national labour laws and collective agreements where they exist, to urge media companies and employers to implement collective agreements in the media where they do not exist;
•    To put these issues to the European institutions, the Council of Europe, the International Labour Organisation and the UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression.

Godišnja skupština EFJ-a, održana u Budvi 2. lipnja 2015., prihvatila je Izvještaj o medijskim slobodama i radnim pravima u zemljama na Balkanu. Donosimo ga u cijelosti.

EFJ Annual Meeting (AM)

Budva, 2nd June, 2015
 
The Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) with 47 affiliated organisations from 33 European countries on 2nd June, 2015 has adopted the following statement:   

On media freedom and labour rights in the Balkans

The Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), meeting in Budva, Montenegro on 2nd June 2015,

Noting the increased physical threats and intimidation against journalists and impunity in the Balkans;

Concerned about the increased lack of respect for journalists\' and media workers\' right by the employers on decent salaries, fair remuneration for freelances, trade union rights and the rights to collective bargaining;

Condemning the physical attack of the Croatian investigative journalist Željko Peratovic, who was beaten on the door step of his home. The attack took place a few days ago and the perpetrators have been found but there is still not a clear motive why the journalist was attacked;

Nothing that because of investigative texts on suspicious activities of individuals from Montenegro eight years ago journalist Tufik Softic was brutally beaten and since then nothing has been done to reveal the perpetrators and the persons that ordered this. Two years ago in his backyard a bomb was thrown and this case is still not resolved. Softic is under constant police protection now since a year and a half.

Calls on the EFJ and its Steering Committee:

•    To request the Croatian government to speed up the investigation for the case of Željko Peratovic and to make sure that the perpetrators are punished;
•    To request the government of Montenegro to solve these cases and to make possible that journalists in Montenegro can work within a safe working environment;
•    To encourage national authorities to bring justice to journalists who are attacked and intimidated;
•    To support the EFJ affiliates from the region to organise collective activities including strikes to protect their rights, to call on media companies and employers to respect rigorously trade union rights, to provide proper working conditions and to respect fully the national labour laws and collective agreements where they exist, to urge media companies and employers to implement collective agreements in the media where they do not exist;
•    To put these issues to the European institutions, the Council of Europe, the International Labour Organisation and the UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression.