World Press Freedom Day 06/05/2019 – Posted in: Daily News
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
For: Preliminary
Topics covered: World Press Freedom Prize
News Flash
The World Press Freedom Prize also known as UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is formally conferred every year by Director-General of UNESCO, on occasion of World Press Freedom Day observed on 3 May.
- The main celebration of Unesco’s World Press Freedom Day 2019 is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a category 8 symposium from 1 to 3 May 2019.
- The overall theme of the event will be the role of the media in elections and democracy.
- UNESCO says the event provides a platform for multiple actors to exchange on current issues, threats and achievements concerning freedom of the press.
- The event will also host an academic conference on the safety of journalists which will allow researchers from different disciplines to share and discuss recent research.
| UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was being awarded to jailed Myanmar journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone by Ethiopian and African Union officials. The Reuters journalists are serving seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. |
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
Created in 1997, the annual UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
It is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia on 17 December 1986.
Source: The Washington Post
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