
President Higgins, a poet, academic and public intellectual was inaugurated as President of Ireland on 11 November 2011. He is a passionate...

Patrick was elected deputy general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation in May 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as general secretary of...

Frances was appointed general secretary of the TUC last January, having served as deputy general secretary since 2003. She is a member of the NUJ. Before the...

David has been general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions since 2001. He sits on the executive committee of the European Trade Union Confederation...

Wellington was elected deputy general secretary of the ITUC in 2011. Prior to taking up that position, he served as Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of...

Jim was elected president of the International Federation of Journalists at the Moscow congress in 2007. Before then he was IFJ Honorary Treasurer for two cycles. He...


Currently Editor in chief at radio France International (RFI), Olivier Da Lage started his career as a freelance journalist in the Persian Gulf, based in Bahrain. He...

Mohammed, a consummate professional and trade unionist, was elected as President of the Federation of African Journalists in March, 2013 in Casablanca, Morocco. A...

Neo is a member of the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA) and the General Secretary of the IFJ regional group, the Southern African Journalists...

Younes is currently Senior-Vice President of the IFJ and President of the Moroccan National Syndicate of Journalists (SNPM). He is a working journalist at the daily...

<p>Marwan is a member of the board since 2004 and General Secretary of the Yemeni Journalists 'Syndicate since 2009,
Marwan...

The Asia-Pacific is the region of dramatic change as economic growth and financial liberalism changes the ground rules. Journalists and media workers are working to...

The European labor and media market are changing rapidly, and we should meet these challenges on the top the development by creating a future for improved...

Since 2005, Judith Reitstätter has served as the Secretary at the Union of Private Sector Employees, Graphical Workers and Journalists (GPA-djp),?

Celso will set out the complex situation in Latin America and the Caribbean highlighting its historical structural problems and its undemocratic heritage from the...

Luis is the General Secretary of the Uruguayan Press Association (APU). He is also Secretary of Political and Union Action of the Federation of Journalists in...


A journalist, trade union leader in the national, regional and international sphere, Gustavo is coordinator for Global Union Americas, leader of the General Workers...

Zuliana is General Secretary of the National Association of Journalists of Perú – elected in 2006 to a union managed by men since 1928. ANP is the first Latin American...

Wolfgang Grebenhof, a newspaper editor for more than 20 years, is a member of the DJV executive board, focusing on collective agreements for both employed and...

will describe the challenges faced by journalists in the Ukraine as an example of what is happening to media in post-soviet space. He will highlight how...

Michelle worked as a journalist for ten years at the Sunday Express newspaper as feature writer and books editor. Michelle was NUJ mother of the chapel at...

Jim has a long and distinguished record in the international labour movement, holding several positions in the...

Franco has been FNSI General Secretary for the last five years, following holding the...





Sally Anne Kinahan is currently the Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the confederation body of the trade union movement in...
The 28th Congress of the International Federation of Journalists will take place on 4th-7th June in the historic grounds of Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland.
The World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists, meeting in Dublin, has elected the members of the Administrative Committee and its advisers. They are as follows:
President, Jim Boumelha, President (NUJ, Great Britain and Ireland)
Senior Vice President, Y
(English/French/Spanish) The World Congress of the IFJ, meeting in Dublin, have approved the following motion:
Proposed by AGJPB-ABVV (Belgium), the Basin-Sen (Cyprus), the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), the SNJ-CGT (France), USJ-CFDT (France), the SNJ (France) The
(English/French/Spanish) The IFJ World Congress, meeting in Dublin Castle, yesterday re-elected Jim Boumelha (NUJ, UK & Ireland) as the President for another three years.
The two candidates that stood for the Presidential election were: Philippe Leruth, a respected Belgian journalist








Dublin, city of innovation and imagination is the venue for World Congress 2013.
Hosted by the National Union of Journalists World Congress will be held in the historic surroundings of Dublin Castle in the heart of the city. The NUJ extends to all delegates the traditional Irish welcome – céad míle fá