decency in the work of journalists

ethical behavior is the main one in the history of the media. Hundreds of self-regulation rules have been developed for the media around the world (more than 400 codes of ethics for journalists alone have been adopted in the world) - most contain universal rules for checking, verifying information and working with sources. One of the main ones is the Code of Ethics adopted in 2014 by the American Association of Professional Journalists: its preamble contains rules governing both formal journalism (the work of TV channels, Internet resources, print media) and "new media" - bloggers, operating on the platforms Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Telegram, etc. The very first principle contained in the preamble of the code is "seek the truth and report it."

US National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horn emphasized the untruthfulness of the message: " Anonymous sources are leaking lies ."

I am the president of Ukraine, I am here, and I think I know the details better than any president " (a reference to Joseph Biden, who at that moment stated that "an attack is likely in any moment").

The media field is a new battlefield, news is a new weapon, and any messages, especially those based on anonymous sources, have a real and great impact on our people, on their psyche, on our state, especially on our economy

And, of course, this did not add confidence to either Ukrainian citizens or the national economy.

On the one hand, the narratives circulated by the media in the US and Britain (as well as their German, French, even Ukrainian counterparts) were supposedly dictated by good intentions: to show the cards at some stage could mean "stop and prevent". On the other hand, this clearly did not meet Ukrainian interests: Ukraine began to lose money from panic.

but in such a volume (dozens of publications for each media) and such a tone (“Kyiv will be plundered”),

Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated negative trends in the protection of human rightsworldwide. More than ever, we need to ensure respect for civic participation, the independent media and civil society

he Czech Republic strongly condemns the use of violence and intimidationagainst protesters, journalists and human rights defenders. We are particularly concerned by actions of the Taliban directed against women and girls.

mr president we continue to remove threats to democratic freedoms and human rights we have repealed a half a century old seditious libel law no politician or rights activist is imprisoned for expressing his or her beliefs no journalist is imprisoned for the practice of journalism in syria we have abolished the death penalty in our nation

That is why Estonia from her side is hosting thenextGlobal ConferenceforMedia Freedom in order to boost the synergies of internet and media freedom in the situation where journalistsand media workersare more and more dependent on internet freedom and modern technologies. Advancing media freedom goes also hand in hand with combattingdisinformation.

with this realization our administration will work towards strengthening of oversight governance institutionsand ensure the independence and autonomy of the three arms of government particularly the legislature and the judiciary the fight against corruption will be at the center of our transformation agenda and this shall be expected to be executed with zero tolerance to corruption zero tolerance to corruption we shall also promote free media and an active civil society as they are critical in upholding checks and balances human rights liberties and freedoms