United Journalists Center

1. Monitoring activities:
• the journalist syndicate elections
• Monitoring the media performance (objectivity was the main criteria) in the elections and the sect cases (problems between citizens from different religious), for example we monitored the previous Shura council elections we also we monitor the coming parliament elections which will be held next month.
• Monitoring the performance of the journalist syndicate , the press supreme council and the radio and television union, the general center of investment and all the organization that has an relation with the journalist.
2. Training for the media workers:
• The ujcenter mainly concern with specialized trainings that the other centers who work in the field of human rights do not give a concern like:
i. Collective bargaining.
ii. Organizing campaigns to gain rights.
Both trainings were done by the cooperation with the international solitary center.
The center also designed and executed many trainings for many human rights center, to help them in developing their practical skills in dealing with the media and develop their employees who edit their website skills and make them more competent in dealing with their organization websites, like the employees of "Hakowk.com".
The center also help and transferring the center experience to many civil society organizations in establishing websites and dealing with new media, the center is helping the syndicate of lawyers in establishing their website and developing the worker of the website.
3. solidarity activities:
1. Providing legal support for different groups of journalist who are fired by illegal way from the organizations they work in.
2. Soldiery with many Egyptian, Arab and few international journalist by creating campaigns through the center website and also issuing pres releases and sending it to the center mailing list that include the emails of most of the journalist and workers in civil society organization in Egypt and Arab world.
4. In depended syndicate for the journalist and a lobby campaign to change the law of the journalist syndicate:
a. The center is working now on setting strategy to put pressure on the syndicate and parliament members to change the current syndicate law.
b. The center also is trying to establish an independent syndicate or journalist.
5. www.ujcenter.com
a. www.ujcenter.com is the first specialized website in the media workers issues in Egypt. The website publish all news, features and interviews that is related to the Egyptian, Arab and international media.
b. The website publish many trainings aiming to educate the media workers and contribute in developing their skills.
c. The website publish many books and reports issued from local and international media and human rights organizations.