OMNI
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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, NEWSLETTER #5, MAY 3, 2015.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF
JOURNALISTS.
Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Truth and Peace
(#1 May 3, 2011; #2 May 3, 2012; #3 May 3, 2013; #4, May 3, 2014). Final number.
Dedicated to journalists
imprisoned and killed for doing their job of pursuing truth, and to protect
future journalists.
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Contents: United Nations World Press Freedom Day, OMNI Newsletter
May 3, 2015
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1 May 2015 – The United Nations today commemorated World Press
Freedom Day 2015 with a moment of silence for journalists killed in the line of
duty, and drew attention to the need for greater gender equality in the media
and the safety of journalists in the digital age, where protection from
surveillance will become increasingly important.
In advance of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated annually on 3
May and which falls this year on Sunday, the United Nations and the UN
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held today in New
York a commemoration on this year's theme, 'Let Journalism Thrive! Towards
Better Reporting, Gender Equality, & Media Safety in the Digital Age.'
UN Under-Secretary-General for Public Information, Cristina
Gallach, said the event “gives us an opportunity to address two vital topics,
gender equality and the safety of journalists, in the digital age, where
protection from surveillance will become increasingly important.”
Noting that 2015 is a historic year during which the United
Nations celebrates its 70th anniversary and is “also the year when the
international community must take once-in-a-generation decisions on sustainable
development goals, on climate change, and on financing for development,” Ms.
Gallach said: “It is a fitting to reaffirm today the relevance of the right to
freedom of expression, without which we would not be able to achieve many of
the goals for 2015.”
In his remarks, General Assembly President Sam Kutesa said that
in 1993, the Assembly established the Day. Some 22 years later, delegations
were gathered to express our utmost respect to the many courageous men and
women who brave hazardous terrain and dangerous environments to tell the
important stories the world needs to hear.
“These men and women go about their critical work in often
inhospitable environments. From the comfort and safety of our homes and
workplaces, we can learn about important issues around the world, including
some dark and troubling events,” he said, stressing that journalists bridge the
information gap and through that work, we learn about important discoveries and
innovations shaping our world.
“Without them, we would have difficulty knowing about positive
developments in the furthest corners of the world. In the same way, we would
never hear the cries that are being silenced or the injustices being committed,
said President Kutesa, adding: “We may never know of abuses being perpetrated,
hostages being taken or lives brutally stolen.”
Noting that already this year, more than 40 journalists and
media staff have been killed around the world, with many more are being held
hostage or simply disappeared, he said the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights is clear: the freedom for all to seek, receive and impart information,
regardless of borders should not be tampered with.
“I urge all Member States to do their utmost to uphold these
rights for the press and media staff. We must strive to guarantee these
universal standards,” he said.
On the importance of freedom of the press, Kaha Imnadze,
Chairperson of the UN Committee on Information and Permanent Representative of
Georgia to the UN, noted the importance of free flow of information to the
functioning of the Organization, and focused on gender equality as a foundation
for these purposes.
And on the issue of safety of journalists, Kahram Haliscelik of
the UN Correspondents Association (UNCA) said the UN-based press corps were
awaiting Security Council action on protection of journalists in conflict
areas.
Speaking on the issue gender equality, George Papagiannis,
Representative of the UNESCO New York Liaison Office, noted that women hold
just 26 per cent of positions in media governance.
Representing the UN Secretary-General, who is travelling on
official business, his Chef de Cabinet, Susana Malcorra, led an observance of a
moment of silence in remembrance of journalists who had given their lives to
deliver information.
Every year, May 3rd is a date which celebrates the fundamental
principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to
defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to
journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.
World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993.
Taking part in a lively discussion on press freedom was a panel
of journalists consisting of David Rohde, an investigative journalist from
Thomson Reuters, and a two-time Pulitzer prize winner; Frank La Rue, the
Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Human Rights Europe, and the
former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the
Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression; Michelle Ferrier, Associate Dean at
Scripps College of Communications at Ohio University; and Nighat Dad, Director
at the Digital Rights Foundation from Lahore, Pakistan via videoconference.
In a joint message on the Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, said: “For peace to be lasting and development to be
sustainable, human rights must be respected.”
“Everyone must be free to seek, receive and impart knowledge and
information on all media, online and offline,” they said. “Quality journalism
enables citizens to make informed decisions about their society's development.
It also works to expose injustice, corruption, and the abuse of power.”
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This newsletter continues
OMNI’s NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL DAYS (or
Weeks or Months) PROJECT.
Half of the Project affirms nonviolent DAYs, such as Human Rights
Day. The other half offers nonviolent,
world cooperative alternatives to violent, imperial, or generally superficial, misleading,
or false days, as with the following:
Feb.
14: Standing on the Side of Love Day
(formerly Valentine’s Day)
May, 2nd Sunday:
Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day for Peace (Mother’s Day)
3rd Sat. in May:
Peace Forces Day (Armed Forces Day)
May, last Monday: Day of Mourning for Victims of Wars (Memorial
Day)
June 14: Liberty
June, 3rd Sunday: Father’s Day for Peace (Father’s Day)
September 11 (9-11): Peaceful Tomorrows Day (Patriot Day)
Oct., 2nd Monday:
Indigenous Peoples of Americas Day (Columbus Day):
Nov. 11: World Unity Day (Veterans Day) (Or Armistice Day in 1918 when
WWI ended).
November: Fourth
Thursday: National Day of Gratitude and
Atonement (Thanksgiving)
December 7: Pacific Colonial War Day (Pearl
Harbor Day)
December 25: Love and Peacemaking Day (Christmas)
Contents #4, May 3, 2014
UN World Press Freedom Day 2014
2014 Theme
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Josh Steams, Free Press: US
Investigative Journalism
END UN WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY NEWSLETTER May 3, 2015
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