RN advisory board member Mansoor Al-Jamri, publisher and co-founder of leading independent Bahraini daily Al Wasat, was honored yesterday with the 2011 Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Award during CPJ’s annual International Freedom Awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. One of four distinguished journalists worldwide selected for the prestigious award given […]
“Seamless economic relations cannot simply exist by free trade with a country that is not free.” Dr. YANG Jianli RN fully supports the president of Initiatives for China Dr. YANG Jianli, former prisoner of opinion and member of RN’s international advisory board, in his open letter to President Obama. It is not surprising that China […]
Lebanese National Bloc leader Carlos Edde said in an interview published on Wednesday that Prime Minister Najib Mikati must resign if the cabinet fails to fund the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). “If the STL funding is rejected by the cabinet, then Mikati has no choice but to be honest with himself and resign […]
RN is pleased to announce that Edward Mortimer – veteran journalist and leading human rights advocate, at the UN as Director of Communications to Secretary General Kofi Annan, and now at the Salzburg Global Seminar – has joined its International Advisory Board. Edward Mortimer has been one of the most influential writers on global affairs […]
RN Chairman Mallat in an interview with the Harvard Crimson highlighted his concern for Libya’s future after the killing of Qaddafi, noting that “Justice would have been far better served if he had been tried rather than killed.” In contrast with the overwhelmingly nonviolent tactics employed in Egypt and Tunisia, he noted that the “…violent […]
