JuHI Chairperson was appointed a member of the Observation Council President Ilham Aliyev issued an Order on appointment of Executive Director of the Fund of State Support for the Development of Mass Media under President of Azerbaijan Republic

The President’s Press Service told APA Safarli Vugar Muzaffar was appointed the Executive Director or related Fund. According to another Order of the President, members of the Observation Council have been determined.

Campaign publicizing the social problems of mass media employees

Journalists’ Trade Union (JuHI) started implementation of a program with multiple phases on provision of social rights to employees functioning in mass media with the financial support of Open Society Institute-Support Fund (SOROS).

Journalists are among the poor provided levels of the nation

80 percent of journalists have no flats and 85 percent of journalists can’t formalize their labor relations at the editorials they currently work. Despite priority given problems in Azerbaijan press is the improvement of the legislation base and the problem of pressure towards the mass media, weakness of economical base of mass media and due to it the severe social-economic state of journalists is not less important than the above mentioned ones.

CONCEPTION ON STATE SUPPORT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MASS MEDIA” WAS APPROVED

Conception on State Support to the Development of Mass Media” was approved by Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on July 31st, 2008. Various forms of State support to the development of mass media were reviewed in the Conception: methodical, organizational-technical, consultative, financial and so on.