World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2008

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Programme

Opening Segment, 10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

• Message from the President of the General Assembly
• Message from the Secretary-General (delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information)
• Remarks by the Chairman, United Nations Committee on Information
• Message from the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), (delivered by Helene-Marie Gosselin, Director, NY Office of UNESCO)
• Tuyet Nguyen, President, United Nations Correspondents Association

Panel Discussion: Access to Information and the Empowerment of People
(Immediately after opening segment)

Moderator: Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information

• Screening of a taped statement by Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui, who is working to monitor illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest

Speakers:

• Richard N. Winfield, Chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee
• Norberto Moretti, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations
• Fernando Rodrigues, a Brazilian investigative journalist, currently a Harvard Nieman Fellow
• Larry Rohter, Journalist, The New York Times