1 April 2010

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IAPA special report shows slow recovery of press


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(IAPA/IFEX) - Miami, March 25, 2010 - At its biannual meeting in Aruba the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) presented a special report on Haiti detailing the impact of the January 12th earthquake on the press there. The catastrophe cost the lives of 31 journalists and closed down the country's leading newspapers, Le Nouvelliste and Le Matin, as well as most radio stations.

In addition to a report on the state of press freedom in Haiti, the meeting held in Oranjestad, March 19-22, featured two panel discussions on the ravaged Caribbean nation on Sunday, March 21. The IAPA announced a plan of action to provide financial aid to the news media there.

IAPA President Alejandro Aguirre of the Miami, Florida, Spanish-language newspaper Diario Las Américas; Anders Gyllenhaal of The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida; Max Chauvet of Le Nouvelliste, and Daly Valet of Le Matín, both of Port-au-Prince, Haiti; together with Robert Shaw of the Copenhagen, Denmark, based organization International Media Support, spelled out the main problems facing the Haitian press.

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Haiti

Cité Soleil in mourning for murdered community radio station manager 6 March 2012 Two Petit-Goâve radio journalists arbitrarily detained 4 July 2011 Radio station destroyed in arson attack 27 April 2011 State TV chief fires three journalists, brings criminal defamation suit against them 13 April 2011 Radio journalist gunned down in Port-au-Prince, motive unclear 15 February 2011 See all alerts: Haiti


Caribbean

CUBA: Hablemos Press journalist awaits 10th deportation to hometown 17 May 2012 SURINAME: Human Rights Watch calls on national assembly to revoke amnesty legislation 19 April 2012 CUBA: Released from Cuba's prisons, exiled journalists languish in Spain 17 April 2012 BAHAMAS: Authorities urged to respect press freedom during election season 12 April 2012 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: IAPA welcomes Inter-American Court's ruling in case of missing journalist 4 April 2012


 
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