Resources to support journalist safety in Europe

Support: Living Expenses

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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Assistance Desk: Individual Support
    Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) – Reporters Without Borders International
    Legal fees if you are wrongfully prosecuted; Resolution of most urgent needs if you decide to flee abroad because of threats and persecution; Support to threatened journalists to find a safe refuge; Financial and administrative support for families of journalists to cope with the consequences of the reprisals to which their loved-ones have been exposed; Financial and administrative support for medical care if you are a victim of violence due to your work.
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    Living Expenses
    Documenting Ukraine
    The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
    Documenting Ukraine is awarding one-time project grants of 5000 EUR.
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    Living Expenses
    Emergency Assistance
    Journalisten helfen Journalisten (JhJ)
    Subsistence costs, support for family
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    Equipment
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Emergency Assistance Program (EAP)
    Freedom House
    Frontline Defenders (FLD)
    Legal representation and trial monitoring; Humanitarian assistance and dependent support; Equipment replacement if confiscated or damaged; Improving physical security of home or office; Medical expenses, including psycho-social support; Temporary relocation, including for dependents affected by the threat.
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    Digital Safety
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Emergency Fund
    Civil Rights Defenders
    Funds for security improvement (for example digital security software); Legal Aid; Humanitarian support; Funds for security improvement (for example specific security improvements like steel doors or security cameras); Psychosocial support; Emergency fund for temporary relocation.
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    Digital Safety
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Emergency grant for human rights defenders at risk
    ProtectDefenders.eu
    Emergency financial and material support for digital security; Emergency financial support for legal fees; Emergency financial support for humanitarian assistance (including family support); Emergency financial and material support for physical security; Emergency financial support for medical support (including psychosocial support and rehabilitation); Emergency financial support for relocation
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    Digital Safety
    Equipment
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Emergency material support to human rights defenders at risk
    OMCT World Organisation Against Torture
    Funds for digital security; Material support; Legal support for human rights defenders who are being judicially harassed; Humanitarian assistance (including family support); Funds for physical security; Medical support (including psycho-social support and rehabilitation) to defenders who have suffered a medical condition as a result of their peaceful human rights activities; Support for temporary relocation where necessary
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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Financial support
    Gewerkschaft GPA
    financial support for jobless financial support for a training financial support in case of an accident
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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Support in Exile
    Gene Roberts Emergency fund
    Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
    Logistical support to journalists when they resettle in exile; Placement in safe havens and short-term emergency; fellowships around the world; Basic living expenses; Funds for psychosocial support and medical aid; Legal support fund.
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    Equipment
    Living Expenses
    Relocation
    Keep Ukrainian Media Going
    The Fix
    First priority funding: Protection and media equipment purchases and delivery to Ukraine (here is a list of supplies – we are delivering via Poland and Romania) Direct operational and financial support to media in Ukraine (e.g., covering IT costs, insurance, transport, and purchase of supplies) Long-term needs: Support for media staff relocation to EU countries Setting up offices and accommodation of media staff in EU countries
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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    Le Fonds d’Urgence
    Agir ensemble pour les droits humains (AEDH)
    Subsistence costs to cover a legal or judicial assistance, covering legal costs when you are sued or filed a lawsuit; Subsistence costs to meet most basic needs for you and/or your family in exceptional situations; Subsistance costs to cover medical needs after an assault; Financial support for temporary national or local relocation.
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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    PEN Emergency Fund
    PEN International
    PEN Nederland
    Financial support for general living expenses; Financial support for medical assistance; Financial support for a safe passage
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    Digital Safety
    Equipment
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Practical support fund / Reporters Respond
    Free Press Unlimited (FPU)
    Digital security resources that help you to circumvent censorship and communicate safely and securely; Security training  (on location or online); Subsistence costs: short term support if you are not able to work, or costs to temporarily flee an unsafe or vulnerable situation; Family support: temporary support for family members of journalists who are unable to work, who are imprisoned, or who are deceased; Professional equipment: digital tools like VPNs for online protection and work materials in exceptional cases; Medical assistance:…
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    Digital Safety
    Living Expenses
    Physical Safety
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Protection Grants
    Frontline Defenders (FLD)
    Grants to improve physical security, digital security and communication security (including office security and individual security); Legal fees if you are being judicially harassed; Family assistance for imprisoned HRDs or family members who are at risk because of a HRD’s activities; Medical fees for HRDs if you have been attacked or have suffered a medical condition as a result of your peaceful human rights activities
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    Living Expenses
    Social services
    Slovensky Syndikat Novinarov (SSN)
    Financial assistance for journalist during unemployment, medicines, and other social services.  
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    Living Expenses
    Solidarność Dziennikarska stabilna i profesjonalna
    Polish Journalists Association – Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich (SDP)
    allowance for treatment for retired journalists
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    Living Expenses
    Psychosocial Support and Medical Aid
    Relocation
    The Safety Fund
    International Media Support (IMS)
    Urgent legal assistance; Urgent medical assistance;  Family support in cases where the journalist has been killed or rendered otherwise incapable of supporting the family; Relocation, safe houses, evacuation out of the country or region.
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    Living Expenses
    Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF)
    American Society of Journalists and Authors (asja)
    The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund helps established freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work.