World Press Freedom Day

    On May 5, 2025; From 9:30 – 11:30; Roundtable on gender and intersectional approaches to the safety of Journalists. Organizers: Article 19 , Global Affairs Canada , Media Freedom Rapid Response , Association of European Journalists Belgium . Venue: Embassy of Canada, Av. des Arts 58, 1000 Brussels. Register here

  Within the framework of the Global Conference on World Press Freedom Day 2023 , the UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Global Freedom of Expression Program of Columbia University and the Society of Correspondents in Latin America and the Caribbean (SOCOLAC) co-organize this event to address, among other key issues, the Model Law on the Safety of Journalists, the safety of women journalists and the presentation of a " Model Protocol for the Intervention and Interaction of Security Forces with Journalists, Communicators and Media ”. Shaping a Future of Rights: Latest Initiatives for the Protection of Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean . 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Riverside Church, Columbia University . Sponsored by: Columbia GFoE, UNESCO Regional Office in Montevideo, SOCOLAC (Society of Correspondents in Latin America and the Caribbean) Speakers: Rosa M. González, UNESCO; Nathalie Castillo, Chile Chamber of Deput...

  Academic Conference on the Safety of Journalists. With interventions of an editor at VOANews and the Director of the   Dirección Nacional de Educación del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura del Uruguay .  Follow the conversation  #WorldPressFreedomDay .

  Increased reliance on digital services means that citizens often unknowingly share private information and data in exchange for free services. Individuals’ data leaves behind a “digital footprint” that can be analysed in real time or ex-post by hostile and illegitimate actors. Moreover, data held by Internet and cybersurveillance companies about personal lives can often be obtained by authorities without adequate due process or transparency.  There is a growing global push encouraging more transparency regarding how Internet companies exploit citizens’ data, how it informs predictive models and artificial intelligence, and enables amplification of disinformation and hatred.  This was underlined in the Windhoek+30 Declaration call for technology companies to “work to ensure transparency in relation to their human and automated systems”.  Relevant here are UNESCO’s set of principles to enhance the transparency of internet platform companies, which will be discus...

4 MAY Closed sessions 14:00 - 16:30 (CET)  | 09:00 - 11:30 (UYT) Closed meeting: Ten years of the UN Plan on Safety of Journalists : How can we – from a multi-stakeholder view – improve? -  by the CSO Coalition on the Safety of Journalists   14:00 - 18:30 (CET)  | 09:00 - 13:00 (UYT) Closed Session: Regional United Nations Workshop on Freedom of Expression, Safety of Journalists and Access to Information –  by UNESCO and the United Nations System Staff College  Closed Session: A roundtable discussion with women journalists on practical solutions to deal with online harassment –  by Free Press Unlimited   Parallel Sessions 14:00 - 15:00 (CET)  | 09:00 - 10:00 (UYT) Ensuring a diversity of free voices in the media –  by UNESCO Regional Event: Meeting of LAC journalists' organisations on journalism under surveillance -   by FEPALC, IFJ and APU Freedom of Expression  during Conflicts - curbing of war-related disi...

  In 2021, MapMF documented 12 alerts for Montenegro with 16 attacked persons or entities related to the media. Following a trend across Europe, a vast majority of these attacks (11) were perpetrated by private individuals. Male and female professionals were equally affected. Political as well as nationalist polarisa‐ tion are blatant in Montenegro through a number of alerts. In the case of a reporting team from the public broadcaster Radio-television (RTV), a right-wing nationalist group intimidated and insulted the journalists near the coastal town of Budva. For several weeks, the nationalist group had organised numerous protests over changes to the Law on Citizenship, which would grant Montenegrin citizenship to Russian and Serbian citizens living in the country. The attacked journalists had been caught up in one of their blockades. During another political event in the city of Niksic, on the night of local elections, Vijesti journalist Jelena Jovanović was attacked by an agg...