(Founded in 1999 at Delhi, India)
All India Journalist Press Association (AIJPA) is a Non-partisan & Not-for-Profit, registered body of the Journalists fraternity in India, working for Print, Electronic & Social Media, News Agencies, and journals all across the nation.
Independent India’s Premiere Trade Association of Media Persons, Founded in 1999 under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 at New Delhi, the All India Journalist Press Association (AIJPA) is a Non-partisan & Not-for-Profit, registered body of Journalists fraternity in India, working for Print, Electronic & Social Media, News Agencies and journals all across the nation.
The AIJPA is the joint family of journalists and social workers. Social Welfare is being done by the AIJPA keeping in mind the interests of society at large, journalists and the social workers. As you know, when any investigative story is published by journalists, then those involved become the enemy of that journalist. In such a situation, the AIJPA comes forward to the full help of journalists.
The work area of the AIJPA is the whole of India that connects to International exposure worldwide. The National Executive of AIJPA consists of Ten Members. Different subcommittees are set up for different States.
AIJPA promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists, fights for gender equality in all its structures, policies and programmes, opposes discrimination of all kinds and condemns the use of media as propaganda or to promote intolerance and conflict, believes in freedom of political and cultural expression as enshrined in the Constitution of India and inscribed in United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Journalism is not a crime; it plays a vital role in informing the public and holding power accountable. However, journalists often face serious dangers and challenges as they seek to uncover the truth.
Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper, El Espectador, in Bogotá, on 17 December 1986
Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.
German journalists protest outside the Russian consulate in Munich with a banner reading ‘Putin, journalists will never be silent’