Serbia / Europe & Central Asia

Dangerous Assignments

A retired Croatian general, critical of President Franjo Tudjman’s drive to turn this small country into a military power in the Balkans, took to the airwaves today to spell out what he said was the folly of such a course.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization based in the United States, is dedicated to defending the rights of journalists around the world. Since the Dayton Peace Accords, the treaty that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was negotiated in Dayton, Ohio, and signed in Paris in December, 1995, CPJ has…

On April 3, 1981, three New York journalists filed incorporating papers for a new organization called The Committee to Protect Journalists, dedicated to the defense “of the human and professional rights of journalists around the world.”