Amal Clooney appointed as UK envoy

Human rights professional person Amal Clooney has been appointed because the government's special envoy on media freedom, the ministry has declared. she is going to conjointly chair a high-level panel of legal consultants on the difficulty. the united kingdom and North American nation are hosting a ministerial conference in London in Gregorian calendar month to draw attention to attacks on journalists. it's been claimed that 2018 was the deadliest year nonetheless for journalists, with ninety nine killed, 348 detained and eighty taken captive by non-state teams. The attacks last year began to unfold to Europe, together with Malta and jap Europe. "Through my legal work defensive journalists i've got seen first-hand the ways in which during which reporters are being targeted and confined in a shot to silence them and stop a free media," more Ms Clooney, United Nations agency last year joined the legal team defensive 2 Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar. Mr Hunt aforementioned Ms Clooney's expertise created her "ideally placed" to confirm the UK's efforts to shield world press freedom had "real impact for journalists".