FRANCAISReporters sans frontières - Comments
3) The networking
-RSF has an international dimension thanks to its correspondents, who cover 130 countries, and to its national branches and offices in 18 countries. Through this network, RSF can respond to the questions of journalists who call the organisation to gather data and to know more about press freedom before writing an article or going abroad for a reportage. Special correspondents even happen to spontaneously offer their services to inform the association about a given country. The role of the foreign branches of RSF is limited however, since their task is to send or receive information to or from the headquarter in Paris.
-RSF collaborates with NGOs that have the same objectives: in London, Amnesty International, Article 19, the Index on Censorship and the International Press Institute; in New York, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Freedom House and Human Rights Watch. This network also include professional organizations such as the FIJ (Fédération Internationale des Journalistes) in Brussels, the OIJ (Organisation Internationale des Journalistes) in Prague or the FIEJ (Fédération Internationale des Éditeurs de Journaux) in Paris. Moreover, RSF belongs to the Ifex (International freedom of expression network), which groups together some fifty associations defending press freedom. Robert Ménard favours this type of co-operation over the creation of new branches that would replace existing local organizations.
