
Resources
COVID-19 Related Resources
UNESCO: Stressing the importance of the safety of journalists amid the COVID-19 pandemic
UNESCO: Resource Center of Responses to COVID-19
UNESCO: Information Sharing and Countering Disinformation
UNESCO: Disinformation: a silent weapon in times of pandemic
UNESCO: Tips to face disinformation
WHO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public — Myth busters
Coronavirus media observatory — worldwide media, advanced visualizations and more
Launched by the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence in Slovenia under the auspices of UNESCO, this site provides global and national news updates based on a selection of media entities with open online news. Emerging trends related to COVID-19 in specific countries and around the world are revealed.
About the Observance
- UNESCO World Press Freedom Day
- Civil Society's Joint Statement for Post-2015
- Professional Journalistic Standards and Code of Ethics
- UN Plan of Action on Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
- Strategy 2013-2014 to guarantee the safety of journalists
- UN Implementation Strategy 2013-2014; Plan of Action on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
Key Documents
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976)
- Convention on the Protection of and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression (2005)
- Declaration of Windhoek (1991)
- UNESCO Resolution 29 on the "Condemnation of violence against journalists" (1997)
- Report of the Secretary-General: The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (A/74/314)
- Finlandia Declaration: Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms - This Is Your Right! (2016)
Related Resources from UNESCO
- Launched: The first Call for the Global Media Defence Fund
- Safety of Journalists
- UNESCO Condemns Killing of Journalists
- Observatory of killed journalists
- Press Freedom on All Platforms
- Fostering Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Expression on the Internet
- Freedom of Information
- Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the Internet
- Dialogue for peace
Other Related Links
- UN General Assembly Committee on Information
- Human Rights Committee
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression