GFMD joins the Media Freedom Coalition’s Consultative Network

The Consultative Network of the Media Freedom Coalition, created in January 2020, is a group of national, regional and international organisations that in collaboration with a much broader set of civil society groups, voluntarily provides advice to the MFC on the Coalition’s work and facilitates selection of cases that it believes require State intervention.

The key objectives of the Consultative Network (CN) are:

• To present cases to the MFC for action – both cases of concern in countries where media freedom is at particular risk and cases of individual journalists or media outlets under threat. This includes sharing information on the situation and providing recommendations on what the MFC can do to address it
• To offer advice on present and future issues within media freedom and media development, including speaking at MFC events, and channelling suggestions from CSOs, media, journalists’ associations, and others to inform the MFC membership;
• To monitor the work of the coalition and provide inputs on the day-to-day and strategic work of the MFC.

The GFMD Secretariat will use our membership of the MFC’s Consultative Network -CN to:

• To present cases* to the MFC for action – both cases of concern in countries where media freedom is at particular risk and cases of individual journalists or media outlets under threat. This includes sharing information on the situation and providing recommendations on what the MFC can do to address it;
• To offer advice on present and future issues within media freedom and media development, including speaking at MFC events, and channelling suggestions from CSOs, media, journalists’ associations, and others to inform the MFC membership;
• To monitor the work of the coalition and provide inputs on the day-to-day and strategic work of the MFC.

If you are interested in submitting cases of attacks against journalists and media outlets, as well as situations of concern relating to media freedom please;

1) read the MFC-CN’s Case Management Policy,

2) fill in the template, and

3) send it directly to Tom Law at tlaw@gfmd.info. Please note that, given limited capacity, we would encourage you to prioritise and manage expectations when submitting a case.