National Initiatives on Safety of Journalists
PersVeilig.be
Belgium
2019
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A hotline to report aggression against journalists, and other education and cooperation initiatives WEBSITE: https://www.persveilig.be/
Amendments to the Criminal Code of North Macedonia
North Macedonia
2023
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Under the amended legislation, threats and attacks on journalists are treated as attacks on public officials, punishable with longer prison sentences; cases which could be...
Expert Working Group for the Suppression of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
Croatia
2021
The Ministry of Culture and Media established the Expert Working Group for the Suppression of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) in mid-2021, following the European...
National Action Plan: Defending free speech - measures to protect journalists, elected representatives and artists from exposure to threats and hatred
Sweden
2018
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: The Government of Sweden adopted the action plan on defending free speech in the context of a more systematic effort to safeguard and thereby strenghten the democratic discourse...