Caribbean
Campaigns and Advocacy
11 March 2010
Trinidad and Tobago
The commitment was pledged by senior EBC officials attending an ACM workshop on election coverage in Port of Spain.
3 March 2010
Haiti
RSF's footage shows the earthquake's impact on the media, which have a vital role to play in relaying information about relief operations and reconstruction efforts.
22 January 2010
Haiti
Haiti's culture and communications minister has given her support for the Media Operations Centre installed in Port-au-Prince by RSF and Quebecor.
20 January 2010
Haiti
AMARC is conducting an urgent assessment of the status of community broadcasting in the areas affected by the earthquake and is working to mobilise resources and technical assistance.
5 June 2009
Venezuela/Cuba
From Paris, IAPA and other international organizations urge Latin American governments to show greater respect for press freedom.
29 November 2006
Brazil/Venezuela/Cuba
(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 22 November 2006 IAPA press release:
From the Communiqué
20 January 2010
Haiti

Not only did the devastating earthquake on 12 January in Haiti leave survivors with no food, no water, no shelter and no place to bury the dead, but it also left them with little or no information, report IFEX members. The media have also suffered great losses at a time when people urgently need aid information.
16 September 2009
Cuba
Blogging flourishes in Cuba as a new generation writes critically about social and economic issues, leaving behind a generation of leaders over 70 who do not fully understand the phenomenon, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
20 May 2009
Cuba
A Cuban journalist has been sentenced to three years in jail on charges of "disrespect for authority," report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC), the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
25 March 2009
Cuba
Six years after Cuba's notorious "Primavera Negra" ("Black Spring") crackdown on journalists and other accused dissenters, the country continues to trample on free expression. Cuba jails more journalists than any other country but China.
18 March 2009
Dominica
The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), the Media Workers Association of Dominica (MWAD) and ARTICLE 19 joined forces last week to highlight the danger Dominica's draft broadcast law poses to independent media and to recommend changes to the law.
14 August 2008
Dominican Republic
Teleunión journalist Normando García was shot and killed on 7 August 2008 in Santiago, a city north of Santo Domingo.