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Background Information

About the observance:

• About the day
• Concept note: Presentation Paper: Media, Development, and Poverty Eradication
• Additional sites

About press freedom:

• Press freedom
• Freedom of expression
• OHCHR's Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Documents on freedom of opinion and expression

About poverty reduction:

• UNESCO - Poverty: the human rights approach
• World Bank - PovertyNet
• UNDP - Poverty reduction
• Human Development Report 2005
• OHCHR: Human rights dimension of poverty