Tag: press freedom

• Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day 2024: environmental journalism, 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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  EU hits back at Belarus for hijacking of Ryanair flight

  

  The European Union seems determined not to let Sunday's incident at Minsk airport go by and is pressing for harsh sanctions against the regime of Belarussian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, starting with a ban on all Belarussian aircraft to fly through EU skies.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay leads freedom of press in South America; Brazil falls down to red zone in RSF ratings

  

  With no South American country among the top 12, the Non-Government Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF - the acronym for Reporters sans frontières) Monday lowered Brazil's freedom of the press rankings to 111th, thus placing it within the red zone.