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2013 “ The right of free expression is critical, and when we protect it we protect so much more..” JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH – Peter Mansbridge, CBC News Chief Correspondent SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 “Those who try to silence the likes of young 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Malala Yousafzai, who so boldly stood up 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 to the Taliban, continue to sicken. 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May there be more Malalas and fewer cowards with guns” APRIL MAY JUNE – Adrienne Arsenault, CBC News Correspondent - The National SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 1 “ No matter where the brave voice is raised or the story told, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 it is our freedom too. ” 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 – Alison Smith, CBC News. Host of World at Six 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 “Silence, when imposed, is the worst form of oppression. ” JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS – Peter Armstrong, CBC News. Host of World Report 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 CBC News is proud to sponsor the CJFE International Press Freedom Awards. OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER CBC News Logo FINAL SMTWTFS SMTWTFS SMTWTFS 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 B cbcnews.ca 1 STACK VERSION FULL COLOUR HORIZONTAL VERSION FULL COLOUR Font: Frutiger Bold and Stag Medium Pantone 485 TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the President & Executive Director 4 Message from the Chair of the Gala Steering Committee 6 INTERNATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM AWARD WINNERS Mae Azango 11 Rami Jarrah 14 VOX LIBERA AWARD WINNER Daniel Henry 17 TARA SINGH HAYER EDITORIAL DIRECTOR MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER Julie Payne Enquête 20 EDITORS Jaclyn Law About CJFE: Cara Smusiak What We Do 24 art DIRECTOR Outreach and Education 25 Victor Szeto Advocacy Work in Canada 25 EDITORIAL assistant Journalists in Distress Fund 26 Amy Johnson IFEX 27 Thank you to Scotiabank/CJFE Fellowship at the writers who volunteered their Massey College 28 time to tell these About the Photos: stories of free expression. What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You 30 © 2012 Canadian Journalists CJFE Remembers for Free Expression Journalists Killed in 2012 32 Support CJFE 35 Thank You 36 2 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THE 15TH ANNUAL GALA: LOOKING BACK WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL CJFE also intervene on behalf of those whose rights have GALA. We are very excited to be been threatened. As a co-founder and the manager of celebrating our 15th Gala anniversary. IFEX, CJFE is connected and contributing to a global Including tonight’s full house, we’ve community of activists, and we work with others to assist had more than 6,000 attendees over journalists in distress around the world. the years. Those who planned our Something else has grown along with CJFE: our base first Gala would never have predicted of support. This is a direct result of the gifts of expertise, this kind of success. time, funds and in-kind contributions of so many CJFE Although the Gala is more sponsors and supporters. We remain immensely grateful elaborate than in its early years, its to our media, corporate and institutional partners, as well ARNOLD AMBER, PRESIDENT objectives remain essentially the as our CJFE Board of Directors and dedicated volunteers same: to honour and celebrate inter- for their hard work. national and Canadian journalists for We are so pleased to pay tribute to Mae Azango and their work and courage in defending Rami Jarrah, our 2012 International Press Freedom Award and promoting free expression here winners, along with our other deserving honourees for and around the world, and to raise their incredible courage. Hearing their compelling stories funds for CJFE’s important work. will serve to inspire CJFE and fuel our resolve in the year CJFE continues to raise ahead as we continue this important work. Canadians’ awareness about the Ask us how you can get involved at cjfe.org. importance of their free expression rights through public events, a robust ANNIE GAME, digital presence and the widely EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR respected annual CJFE’s Review ARNOLD AMBER ANNIE GAME of Free Expression in Canada. We PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 4 5 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR OF THE GALA STEERING COMMITTEE he had just witnessed, he decided to speak to foreign media when asked. Soon Rami was devoting his time to filming the WHAT YOU DON’T atrocities of the Bashar al-Assad regime and finding ways to KNOW CAN HURT YOU get those images to people around the world. At the same time, in Liberia, Mae Azango publicly WE are all familiar with the efforts of exposed a network of women called the Sande who perform authoritative regimes to suppress voices and views they a barbaric ritual, female genital mutilation, on girls. She pub- find inconvenient or intimidating. We are less familiar with lished the story of Ma Sabah, who tells how the Sande cut the homegrown variety. But CJFE is increasingly calling out out her clitoris with a knife. For years, Mae has courageously those who would restrain free speech in our own country. exposed the adversity CJFE believes that “What you don’t know can hurt you.” that women and girls in It is the theme of the 2012 Gala and a mantra that guides her society face. Mae’s our work. We will introduce you to people from Canada and reward is fear for her life. abroad who thought the public ought to know something, but quickly learned that those with power disagreed. Our International Press Freedom Awards honour two people who spoke truth to power and are paying a high price for it. Rami Jarrah remembers the moment his life changed There are people now course: he was following a protest against Syria’s govern- living in Canada who risked ment that their freedom to tell the truth. suddenly turned Journalist Jiang Weiping spent into a bloodbath, five years in a Chinese prison with soldiers CAROL OFF IS after he alleged the corrup- opening fire CHAIR OF THE tion of recently disgraced CJFE GALA PHOTO: CBC on unarmed COMMITTEE Communist Party cadre Bo demonstrators. AND CO-HOST Xilai. Jiang Weiping now lives OF CBC RAdio’s in exile in Toronto. » Horrified by what AS IT HAPPENS. Jiang Weiping 6 7 Sayed Shah Sharifi spent several years interpreting for In the case of Cindy Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. But the Canadian govern- Blackstock, a First Nations ment didn’t believe him when he said he feared the Taliban woman whose life’s work would kill him. Only when the Toronto Star intervened—along has been to get the with pro bono support from Toronto immigration lawyer Canadian government to Lorne Waldman—did Sayed manage to find refuge here. provide the same level of As Canada provided safe haven to others, journalists with social funding for native Radio-Canada’s program Enquête learned there are ways to children as it does for intimidate reporters even within a democratic country. all others in the country, Alain Gravel and Marie-Maude Denis took on the most authorities have put her powerful forces in Quebec, exposing the collusion between under surveillance in an the mafia, trade unions and municipal and provincial attempt to discover her governments along with their political parties. The reporters “ulterior motives” instead faced multiple lawsuits and physical threats. Yet the results of addressing her con- Cindy Blackstock of their journalism were stunning—they triggered the end of cerns in any meaningful way. several dynastic political careers, saw many people arrested A chill has descended on journalists, scientists, and provoked a major public inquiry. Our colleagues in other activists and those who question the direction of govern- countries rarely see such effects from their journalism. ment policy in Canada.