Resources
Useful Websites
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) annual 3 May campaign, around the theme "Silence Kills Democracy but a Free Press Talks". Download and publish WAN-IFRA's free materials - many of them promoted on this IFEX site. www.worldpressfreedomday.org
UNESCO website for World Press Freedom Day, with a focus on this year's theme " "New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies", and an archive of previous celebrations. www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/world-press-freedom-day/homepage
UNESCO crowdsourcing tool to map World Press Freedom Day celebrations around the world. https://www.unesco-ci.org/foemap/main
Resources
International
3 May 2012
ARTICLE 19 launches Join the Debate, a new blog about free expression issues
To mark World Press Freedom Day, ARTICLE 19 staff and volunteers blog about the situation of free media, including new media.
2 May 2012
Eritrea, North Korea, Syria top list of 10 most censored countries
CPJ's report details how censorship works in each nation and highlights some trends among the censored countries, including disputed legitimacy of leadership and lagging economic development.
27 April 2012
Freedom House launches 2012 report on press freedom
According to the report, for the first time in eight years, global media freedom did not experience an overall decline, while the Middle East and North Africa saw dramatic if precarious gains in press freedom in 2011.
27 April 2012
Global call to commemorate World Press Freedom Day
WAN-IFRA has just added an interview with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman to the package of editorial and advertising materials it is offering to media worldwide to commemorate World Press Freedom Day on 3 May.
21 February 2012
Local censorship goes global as media under siege, says CPJ report
"In a globalized information age, censorship is a transnational violation that must be emphatically countered," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon.
Africa
2 May 2012
Southern Africa
MISA launches annual state of media freedom report
The current edition of So This Is Democracy? documents numerous media freedom and freedom of expression violations that MISA recorded in Southern Africa during the course of 2011.
26 April 2012
Uganda
Press freedom continues to diminish, says new report
Attacks on journalists have escalated in the past six months despite the government's commitment to adhere to international human rights principles, with 32 cases of attacks since the review by the UN Human Rights Council, says HRNJ-Uganda.
Americas
3 May 2012
Mexico
CPJ co-presents "The Silenced: Fighting for Press Freedom in Mexico"
CPJ, CAFOD and The Guardian have developed ‘The Silenced: Fighting for Press Freedom in Mexico’, a photo exhibition that will mark the courage and determination of ‘The Silenced’ and those who continue to fight to tell the truth about the Latin American drug cartels, despite the risks.
20 March 2012
Mexico
ARTICLE 19 releases report on press entitled "Forced Silence"
The report revealed increases in attacks on journalists in 2011, showing that the authorities are still not doing their job.
Asia and Pacific
7 May 2012
Asia and Pacific
IFJ releases Press Freedom in the Pacific report
In partnership with PFF, IFJ released its first Press Freedom in the Pacific report at a press launch held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to celebrate World Press Freedom Day.
3 May 2012
China
IFJ releases report on media freedoms in greater China
IFJ continues to receive complaints from media all over China that they have been subjected to various kinds of pressure that prevent them from carrying out their duties.
3 May 2012
Asia and Pacific
New Frontiers, New Struggles - SAMSN report on press freedom in South Asia, 2011-12
World Press Freedom Day 2012 comes at a time of momentous challenges for journalism in South Asia, says the report published by IFJ in collaboration with a range of partners in the region.
3 May 2012
Cambodia
CCHR launches Harassment of Media 2008-2011 map
The information published on the map is public information on cases of restrictions or alleged restrictions of the right to freedom of expression involving the media.
Europe and Central Asia
9 May 2012
Turkey
One hundred journalists in prison on World Press Freedom Day
BIANET laments the poor state of press freedom in the country and says that recent judicial reforms that label some press crimes as "terrorism" will make the situation worse.
Middle East and North Africa
4 May 2012
Tunisia
Fleeting Words: An Anthology of Revolution launched for World Press Freedom Day
The anthology, part of IFEX-TMG's ongoing project, brings together journalistic articles, commentaries, prose and verse in Arabic written both during the Ben Ali regime and since its fall, and is illustrated with images of the revolution.
24 February 2012
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