World Press Freedom Day 2021: Theme, Importance and Celebration, Everything You Should Know

New Delhi: The World Press Freedom Day or Press Freedom Day is widely known on Might three years to boost consciousness concerning the freedom of the press and remind the governments of their obligation to respect and uphold the appropriate of Freedom of Expression underneath Article 19 of 1948 Common Declaration of Human Rights.

Press Freedom Day additionally marks the anniversary of Windhoek Declaration– an announcement of free press rules by African journalists in 1991.

It’s a day to encourage and develop initiatives in favour of press freedom and assess freedom of press worldwide. It additionally serves an event to tell residents of the violation of press freedom – remind that in a number of nations, publications are fined, censored, closed down, whereas journalists, publishers and editors are attacked, detained, harassed and even murdered.

UNESCO marks the Press Freedom Day bu conferring Press Freedom Prize to deserving people, organisations and establishments which have made an excellent contribution to the sector of promotion of press freedom in any a part of the world, particularly when it’s achieved with hazard. The prize is awarded on the advice of an unbiased jury comprising 14 information professionals.

These names are submitted by UNESCO member states, regional and worldwide NGOs working for press freedom.

The prize is called within the honour of a Colombian Journalist Guillermo Cana Isaza, who was assassinated in entrance of his newspaper’s workplace in Bogota in December 1986, for offending Colombia’s energy drug barons in his writings.

The theme of this 12 months’s Press Freedom Day is ‘Journalism with out Worry or Favour’.

On this event, a video convention by UNESCO will happen in Hague, Netherlands– which shall be attended by media professionals, UN businesses, press freedom organizations to evaluate the state of press freedom worldwide and talk about options to handle challenges. The convention is being held since 1998.