IFJ urges UN to end discrimination against Taiwan journalists

2019/06/24

A resolution urging the U.N. to end its discrimination against Taiwan reporters was announced June 17 following the 30th Congress of the International Federation of Journalists in Tunisia.
 
 The resolution condemns the “discriminatory exclusion” of Taiwan reporters from the World Health Assembly on the grounds they were using passports issued by a non-U.N. member state and working for local media outlets.
 
 The WHA is the annual meeting of the governing body of the World Health Organization. Taiwan was excluded from the 72nd edition running May 20-28 in Geneva at the request of Beijing citing the “one China principle.”
 
According to the IFJ, the U.N. must cease “oppressing journalists for being who they are and for whom they chose to work and to immediately remove the term dictating applicant’s passport must be from a state recognized by the U.N. General Assembly.” The federation also urges the U.N. to accredit Taiwan journalists wishing to cover U.N. events.
 
 In a tweet on the official account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu praised the IFJ for its “brave resolution” and urged the “#UN to end its discrimination against Taiwan & stop acting as a vassal of the CCP regime.”
 
Founded in 1926, the Brussels-headquartered IFJ represents around 600,000 media professionals in more than 140 countries and territories. It works to promote international action on issues ranging from journalist union development to labor and gender rights in the media.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)