Efforts on to further journalists’ access to information: AJSC

TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) members on Tuesday launched a two-day capacity building workshop for journalists in northern Takhar province, saying they were trying to make further easy journalists’ access to information across the country.

Abdul Qadeem Wiar, AJSC president, said: “We are making efforts all over the country to ensure the safety of journalists, their psychotherapy treatment, capacity building and facilitating their access to information and finding financial assistance for media outlets”.

“We also talked to provincial officials of Takhar province about bilateral cooperation, support and providing journalists with access to information and solution of some other challenges,” Wiar said.

The two-day workshop was launched to increase the capacity of journalists, he said.

Some journalists complained about their economic problems and lack of access to information and demanded solution to them.

Mohammad Issa Raouf Zada, a reporter, said the government should effectively implement the Right of Access to Information Law.

Abdul Saboor Tabesh, a media outlet chief editor in Takhar, said most of his organization’s workers had lost jobs and they had to stop publications sometimes due to financial problems.

He said journalists and media outlets were in the worst financial crises and they must be supported.

Some media outlets succumbed to financial crisis after the political change in the country while many journalists after losing jobs switched to hard labor.

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