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Montevideo, May 13th 2025 - 08:20 UTC

Tag: press freedom

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Nicaragua to leave UNESCO to deepen absence of press freedom

    La Prensa has been operating online from exile since 2021

    Nicaragua announced it would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective Dec. 31, 2026, after it granted the 2025 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to the opposition newspaper La Prensa. The regime of President Daniel Ortega said the accolade was “unacceptable” and accused the publication of promoting violence and fostering anti-Nicaraguan values.

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  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 10:34 UTC

    Bolivian journalists against censorship

    “We ratify our unwavering commitment to the defense of citizens' rights and democracy in Bolivia,” the journalists' guild stressed

    The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) and nine departmental journalist associations have rejected Congressional Bill No. 007/2024-2025, titled “Integrity and Public Ethics in Electoral Processes,” currently under review in the Bolivian Senate. Senator Silvia Salame's initiative is criticized for introducing covert censorship and control over media under the guise of ensuring electoral integrity.

  • Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    World Press Freedom Day 2024: environmental journalism, an increasingly dangerous profession

    UN Chief Guterres, “Media freedom is under siege. And environmental journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession.”

    The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations. People need to know about this – and journalists and media workers have a key role in informing and educating them.

  • Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 10:48 UTC

    Freedom of the press threatened in Argentine provinces

    Whoever may feel harmed by a publication, already has the legislation in force to resort to the Judiciary,” Adepa said in a statement

    Amid the controversy on who gets to decide what is true or not, the Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities (Adepa) Friday expressed its deep concern over the passing by the provincial Lower House in Salta of a bill establishing penalties (arrest and/or fines) for “whoever spreads false news” within the digital spectrum, it was reported.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    World Press Freedom Day: IAPA anything but optimistic

    “It is impossible to sustain democracy without the proper freedom and protection that journalists and the media need...,” Greenspon said

    Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Michael Greenspon was anything but optimistic in his World Press Freedom Day message after reports showed that, in the last semester, 10 journalists were murdered: 5 in Haiti and the others in Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, and Paraguay.

  • Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    Shaky weekend as Santiago mourned slain reporter

    “Francisca did not leave us. They killed her,” wrote Señal 3, the outlet she worked for

    Riots rocked the Chilean capital city of Santiago as protesters demanded justice for slain reporter Francisca Sandoval, who died recently after being fatally shot while covering the May 1 Labor Day demonstrations.

  • Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Poor performance of South American countries in the World Press Freedom Index

    Within democratic societies divisions are growing because of the spread of opinion media following the “Fox News model” and the spread of disinformation circuits

    South American countries have not rated very well in the latest edition of the World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders, RSF, which assesses the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories. Half of the countries are in the upper half of the 180 list, while the rest in the lower half; among the first are Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, while Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela among the worst. To have an idea UK rates 24 and the US 42.

  • Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

    Killing of journalists on the rise in Haiti - UN concerned

    “I would like to pay a heartfelt tribute to these brave press workers for their continued commitment to freedom of expression,” Henry said on social media

    Haiti's crisis includes the murder of 19 journalists since 2000, three of them this year, according to the United Nations Integrated Office, which has also called for local authorities to act accordingly since these crimes systematically remain unpunished.

  • Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

    IAPA condemns journalist's arrest by Cuba's regime

    Cuban journalist Claudia Montero has been placed under preventive house arrest

    The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Wednesday expressed its support for Cuban journalist Claudia Montero, who has been accused by the Government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel of causing “public disorder.”

  • Thursday, November 25th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

    Peru's President not a stalwart of freedom of the press, Human Rights Watch claims

    Since becoming President, Castillo has never taken questions from journalists

    The Washington DC-based Human Rights Watch organization Wednesday said Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones undermined freedom of expression after the head of state threatened to withdraw all state advertising from media outlets.

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