Muscat, June 3 (BNA) In a new achievement for the Bahraini press, Rashid Nabil Al-Hamar, Head of International Relations of the Bahrain Journalists Association, was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists.
Al-Hamar received 112 votes in the elections held at the 31st Congress of the International Federation of Journalists in Muscat, Oman.
This is the first time that a Bahraini journalist has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists.
Al-Hamar said: “This election to the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists reflects the confidence of member states in the International Federation of Journalists and the reputation of the Bahraini press in international circles, in addition to its advanced levels of freedom of opinion and expression.”
BJA became a full member of the International Federation of Journalists in October 2003.
The International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest organization of journalists, represents 600,000 media professionals from 187 trade unions and trade unions in more than 140 countries.
Founded in 1926, the International Federation of Journalists is the organization that speaks for journalists within the United Nations system and within the international trade union movement.
First established in 1926 in Paris, the International Federation of Journalists (FIJ) was re-launched as the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) in 1946, but lost its Western members in the Cold War and re-emerged in its current form in 1952 in Brussels.
According to its website, the IFJ organizes collective action in support of journalists’ unions and promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice.
The IFJ opposes discrimination of all kinds and fights for gender equality in all of its structures, policies and programmes.