World Press Freedom Day

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03 May 2023
'Stop targeting truth and truth-tellers,' says UN Chief Guterres on World Press Freedom Da...
This handout image provided by the United Nations on May 2, 2023, shows UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivering remarks via video during the UNESCO world press freedom event at United Nations headquarters in New York City. Photo: Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo/AFP
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03 May 2023
Press freedoms shrink, journalists targeted: UN...
Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually...
WSJ correspondent Evan Gershkovich attends a court hearing of the Moscow City Court where they consider the demand of his defence to cancel his arrest, in Moscow, Russia, 18 April 2023. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2023
UN can help journalists beyond World Press...
In the following commentary, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) special projects...
(File) Released detainee Tu Tu Tha (L), 49, a writer and journalist, greets with her friend outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, 19 October 2021. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2023
Myanmar's journalists continue to face...
3 May is World Press Freedom Day, a day dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the...
A journalist (3rd L), who was covering a protest against the military coup, receives medical attention as an injured protester lies on a stretcher beside an ambulance after a crackdown on the demonstration by security forces in Yangon on December 5, 2021. Photo: AFP
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03 May 2023
Myanmar independent press under pressure as World...
UNESCO calls on the world to “celebrate” World Press Freedom Day on 3 May but for Burmese...
(File) Myanmar journalist K Zune Nway (L) and photojournalist Ye Myo Khant (R) talk to media colleagues outside the Insein prison after they were released from detention, Yangon, Myanmar, 30 June 2021. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2023
Myanmar 3rd worst offender in jailing journalists...
As the world marks World Press Freedom Day, the sad truth for crisis-torn Myanmar is that...
(File) This file photo taken on June 24, 2021 shows an Apple Daily journalist holding freshly-printed copies of the newspaper's last edition to be distributed to supporters gathered outside their office in Hong Kong, as the pro-democracy tabloid was forced to close after 26 years under a sweeping new national security law. Photo: AFP
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04 May 2022
Hong Kong plummets towards bottom of press...
Hong Kong has plummeted down an international press freedom chart as authorities have...
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04 May 2022
Media situation in 28 countries ‘very bad’ with...
Unregulated online content has spread disinformation and propaganda that have amplified...
Visual journalists take cover near the entrance of a monastery. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2022
Myanmar: One of the worst countries for...
As the world marks the importance of free media on World Press Freedom Day, many Myanmar...
A street vendor sorts newspapers as she displays those for sale at a roadside in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2021
Statement from Diplomatic Missions to Myanmar on...
On World Press Freedom Day, we pay tribute to the essential role of journalism in...
Visual journalists take cover near the entrance of a monastery where military supporters are gathering as they are attacking the protestors and medias and residents, in Yangon, Myanmar, 18 February 2021. Photo: EPA
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01 May 2021
Myanmar a core concern on World Press Freedom Day
Serious concerns are being expressed about the situation of reporting from Myanmar as the...
(File) A journalist broadcasts live report of a press conference of family members and lawyers of jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, in Yangon, Myanmar, 04 September 2018. Photo: EPA
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03 May 2020
FEM issues report on freedom of expression...
NGO Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) has issued an in-depth report and assessment on Myanmar...
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03 May 2020
Free Expression Myanmar and the challenge of the...
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. According to Oliver Spencer-Shrestha of Free Expression...

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