Press Freedom Day Images 2021
3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to appreciate their commitment to press freedom. It is also an afternoon of reflection amongst media specialists regarding press freedom and expert ethics issues. Just as importantly, World Press Freedom Day is an afternoon of support for media that our objectives for the restraint or abolition of press freedom. Likewise, it is a day of remembrance for those journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story.
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Every year, 3 May is a date that celebrates the fundamental ideas of press freedom, evaluates press freedom around the world, shields the media from attacks on their independence, and pays tribute to journalists who’ve misplaced their lives in the exercise of their career. World Press Freedom Day turned into proclaimed with the aid of the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation followed at the twenty-6th session of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991. This, in turn, became a response to a call by way of African journalists who in 1991 produced the landmark Windhoek Declaration(link is external) on media pluralism and independence.
At the core of UNESCO’s mandate is freedom of clicking and freedom of expression. UNESCO believes that these freedoms permit mutual knowledge to construct a sustainable peace.
It serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom – a reminder that in dozens of countries around the sector, guides are censored, fined, suspended, and closed down, at the same time as newshounds, editors and publishers are careworn, attacked, detained or even murdered.
It is a date to encourage and broaden tasks favoring press freedom and evaluate the state of press freedom internationally.
“This year’s World Press Freedom Day theme, “Information as a Public Good,” underlines the indisputable importance of verified and reliable information. It calls attention to the essential role of free and professional journalists in producing and disseminating this information, by tackling misinformation and other harmful content.”
— Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day
