World Press Freedom Day

  The right to freedom of expression and its corollary, the right to access information , allow us to seek, receive and impart information, ideas, concepts and beliefs across borders and cultures. And in this exercise, the media and journalists play an essential role: they help verify and disseminate facts, they create spaces for ideas to be debated and for the voiceless to be heard, and they render complex matters intelligible for the public at large. “Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with our world's existential problems: climate, coronavirus, the battle for truth.” Maria Ressa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2021  Through their various platforms, media organizations , journalists and media workers can reach wide audiences, including the most isolated and marginalized communities, and inform them about their fundamental freedoms,...

 The right to access information is both the general right of the public to have access to information from a variety of sources and the right of the media to access information . International organizations are also bound by the right to access information.