World Press Freedom Day

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World Press Freedom Day

3 May

Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news.

Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

World Press Freedom Day
(Department of Public Information)
Committee on Information, 29th session
(2007 : New York)
UN News Centre
UN Radio
UN Television and Video
Millennium Campaign - Voices Against Poverty

Unesco

World Freedom Press Day
Freedom of Expression
International Programme for the Development of Communication
Information for All Programme
REDCom
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, instituted in 1997, is intended to honour each year a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if some risk was involved.

UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

Additional resources:

The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.

Arab Press Freedom Watch

Committee to Protect Journalists

International Center for Journalists

International Federation of Journalists

International Freedom of Expression Exchange

International Press Institute

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Reporters Without Borders

World Association of Newspapers

The World Press Freedom Committee, with 44 affiliated organizations on six continents, is in the forefront of the struggle for a press free of government interference everywhere and for full and free flow of news.

The World Press Freedom Review examines the state of the media in over 184 countries, territories and administered areas, documenting press freedom violations and major media developments all over the world.

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