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Press release
Cairo:7/4/2003
Training Course for Journalists
Entitled “The Capacity-Building of
Journalists in Public Opinion Issues”
EOHR is holding today, with the cooperation of The Arabic
Internews Network in El Fayoum, a training course for journalists
entitled “The Capacity- Building of Journalists in Public Opinion
Issues.” In addition to aiming at promoting the freedoms of opinion and
expression, the course also intends to inculcate those journalists
present with the importance of international and Egyptian
standards of professionalism. Finally, it seeks to promote human
rights values in general as well as the freedoms to access and
exchange information more specifically.
The training course will last for four days; lecturers
will include legal scholars and senior journalists. Trainees will be
thirty-five in number and will represent national, opposition and
independent newspapers. |