Reporters Without Borders
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| Abbreviation | RSF |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| A look at its funders reveals whose agendas it is promoting. | |
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) (RSF) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO). A look at its funders reveals whose agendas it is promoting.[1]
Own words
RSF is an international non-profit and non-governmental organisation (NGO) that safeguards the right to freedom of information. RSF's advocacy is founded on the belief that everyone requires access to the news and information, inspired by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that recognises the right to receive and share information regardless of frontiers, along with other international rights charters.[2]
Consultative status
RSF has consultative status at the United Nations, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.[3]
World Press Freedom Index
RSF published a yearly Press Freedom Index, which "evaluates the press freedom situation in 180 countries and territories annually".[4]
Israeli war crimes in Gaza
On 21 May 2021, RSF reported:
Targeted Israeli airstrikes have destroyed the premises of 23 Palestinian and international media outlets in the Gaza Strip in the past ten days. Those destroyed by last Saturday’s airstrikes include the bureaux of the US news agency, the Associated Press, and the Qatari TV broadcaster Al Jazeera.
What the Israeli military has claimed, namely that the buildings destroyed in these attacks were legitimate military targets because of an alleged Hamas presence, is completely false from the legal viewpoint because these buildings were also housing civilians, in this case, journalists and their installations and equipment.
RSF maintains that, by deliberately destroying media infrastructure, the Israeli military violated Resolution 2222 on the protection of journalists, which the UN Security Council unanimously adopted in May 2015, as well as the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute (applicable to the Palestinian Territories).*
- (To protect journalists and their installations, these documents require combatants to distinguish between journalistic installations and military targets and, again for the protection of journalistic installations and equipment, they require combatants to respect the principle of proportionality.)
The Israel Defence Forces are inflicting unacceptable material damage on news organisations and, more broadly, are obstructing media coverage of a conflict that directly affects the civilian population.
RSF has formally asked International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate these airstrikes, which we regard as war crimes.[5]
Ukraine
In 2024 Reporters Without Borders published a hit piece on Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko and "condemns her misleading use of news video formats to promote disinformation".[6] Her Youtube channel was deleted in August 2025.[7]
Financing
Select sponsors from 2021 [8]and partners from 2022[9]
References
- ↑ http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Medien/becker.html
- ↑ RSF Annual Report 2018, p5
- ↑ "Presentation, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), for freedom of information"
- ↑ https://rsf.org/en/2021-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-vaccine-against-disinformation-blocked-more-130-countries
- ↑ "RSF hails Security Council's historic decision on protecting journalists"
- ↑ http://archive.today/2024.10.14-234030/https://rsf.org/en/diana-panchenko-ukrainian-propagandist-working-kremlin
- ↑ https://www.newstarget.com/2025-08-12-youtube-bans-exiled-ukrainian-journalist-zelensky-critic.html
- ↑ https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/medias/file/2022/06/RCA%20RSF%202021%20English.pdf
- ↑ https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/medias/file/2023/06/activity%20reports_2022.pdf
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