Reporters without Borders

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Reporters Without Borders (ROG; , RSF) is an international non-governmental organisation that campaigns for freedom of the press and against censorship worldwide. Citing Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the right to freedom of expression and expression of opinion), the organisation is engaged, among other things, for politically imprisoned journalists.

History
The organization was founded in 1985 in Montpellier by four French journalists. One of them was Robert Ménard, who led the organization until Jean-François Julliard took over from him as Secretary General in September 2008. After it was announced in May 2013 that Ménard was to receive the support of the far-right Front National party in the municipal elections in March 2014 in Béziers, southern France, after a meeting with Marine Le Pen, both the international umbrella organisation of Reporters Without Borders in Paris and, for example, the sections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland publicly distanced themselves from the long-time head of the organisation who had retired five years earlier.

In early March 2021, Reporters Without Borders filed a complaint against Mohammed bin Salman for crimes against humanity with the Federal Court in the context of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Organisation and financing

ROG has an international secretariat in Paris, nine European country sections and five country offices in North America and Asia. In addition, ROG works with 130 correspondents on all continents as well as 14 non-governmental partner organizations.

You can also become a member who is not a reporter or journalist. The name was chosen in reference to the organization Doctors Without Borders, which also operates worldwide.

The organization has an annual budget of around 4.8 million euros and gives the composition of its income in 2010 as follows:
45.5 percent came from self-generated sources such as auctions, calendar sales and the proceeds of three illustrated books.
17.8 percent of the household came from companies and foundations.
18 percent came from public institutions, including the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), the French Development Agency and the International Francophonie Organization.
The prize money received in 2010 for the Roland Berger Prize for Human Dignity was 7 percent of the revenue.
Membership fees and donations generated 4.7 percent.

According to research by the newspaper Junge Welt, ROG has been funded in the past by US multi-billionaire George Soros and the National Endowment for Democracy. In 2003, the annual budget came to about 10 percent from the French state and another 15 percent from the EU.

The financiers in the past also included the armaments industrialist and media czar of France Ser