World Press Freedom Day

The top 10 photographs will be displayed at a public exhibition during the World Press Freedom Day 2024 celebration in UNESCO Office in Kathmandu on 3 May 2024. A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis . The 31st edition of World Press Freedom Day highlights the significant role played by the press, journalism, access, and dissemination of information to ensure and secure a sustainable future that respects the rights of individuals and their diversity of voices, as well as gender equality. The Day serves as a platform to bring together key actors and reflect on the fundamental role of journalism and reliable information in protecting our planet and discuss topics, including: The importance of reliable and accurate information, especially that which denounces and investigates the environmental crisis and its effects. Objectives of the Competition: This photography competition aims to celebrate and raise awareness about the vital role of media and jo...

  *All times are in Eastern Time (ET). AM LIVE SESSION: 30th Anniversary of World Press Freedom Day Global Conference PM LIVE SESSION: 30th Anniversary of World Press Freedom Day Global Conference. ABOUT THE DAY:  Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. The World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth session of UNESCO's General Conference in 1991. This in turn was a response to a call by African journalists who in 1991 produced the landmark Windhoek Declaration.

The World Press Freedom Index is an annual assessment from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) about the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories. On Wednesday, May 3 at 9:00 a.m. ET, join Washington Post Live for an early look at this year’s findings, conversations with top journalists and an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the state of global press freedom. Speakers: - Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State - Jason Rezaian, Global Opinions Writer, The Washington Post - Yeganeh Rezaian, Senior Researcher, The Committee to Protect Journalists - Paul Beckett, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal - Clayton Weimers, Executive Director, U.S. Bureau, Reporters Without Borders - Adefemi Akinsanya, International Correspondent & Anchor, Arise News - Hanna Liubakova, Nonresident Fellow, Atlantic Council - Danny Fenster, Editor-at-Large, Frontier Myanmar. Launch of The 2023 World Press Freedom Index. Location: Washington D.C. | Watch Live...

  Organized by: International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), Permanent Delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations |  Location: Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations. 10:00-11:30. Journalism on the Move: displaced media workers on the frontline of human rights’ defense

As part of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2023 , an academic conference will take place at Columbia University in New York on 1 May 2023 as a hybrid event. The academic conference focuses on freedom of expression as a driver for other human rights, linking to UNESCO’s overall theme for World Press Freedom Day 2023. Academia has played an important role in World Press Freedom Day by hosting an academic conference that provides a forum to hear from scholars who research constraints on media freedom in all their complexity. As this is the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, the first part of this year’s academic conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate academia’s contributions to better understanding the challenges of journalism safety and media freedom , as well as looking ahead at how it can contribute to these pressing issues in a future where freedom of expression is being threatened around the world. This interactive workshop will provide an opp...

  The Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) will share key findings from their recently launched research titled Weaponizing the Law: Attacks on Media Freedom. The research is a first-of-its-kind report that draws on the insights of media law experts and journalists from around the world to provide a global overview of these sweeping threats to a free press. The presentation of the report by Joel Simon, Founding Director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, will be followed by a high-level discussion with leading media defence experts, researchers and media freedom experts to be moderated by Antonio Zappulla, CEO of TRF, that will focus on identifying future research and data collection needed to map in more detail the scale, nature and geographic reach of these threats and how they impact journalists and the media ecosystem. This ongoing exploration of global trends will be critical to enab...

  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...