Each year the UK World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition is co-hosted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network.
The event, held jointly by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network, brings together journalists, media professionals and distinguished press freedom experts from the UK and abroad.
There's degrees and there's got to be a halfway house between freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and the right to a person's private life and privacy.
You then also have to have a process to establish rule of law and the respect of the rights of minorities, and a constant vigilance when it comes to do with freedom of the press and freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
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Israel is a vibrant, Western-style democracy, with universal suffrage, freedom of the press and freedom of religion supporting Israel does not contradict the freedom agenda.
Under Chavez, freedom of the press and freedom of expression plunged.
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And those are freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of access to information -- the Internet in particular -- and to respond to those demonstrations in a non-violent way.
At the ceremony for the World Press Freedom Prize, the Director-General pointed out, however, that freedom of information is not enough.
We have both a set of values and principles that we share that I believe are universal: the belief in individual liberty, in freedom of the press, in freedom of political assembly, in human rights.
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Taylor didn't seem to grasp the fact that, for better or worse, freedom of the press also includes freedom to fail.
There are many Iranians who, while they may disagree with the regime on other subjects, for example, freedom of the press, or freedom of politics, democracy, these sorts of things, on this issue, they're more unified.
Since then, the World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated every year on 3 May, and the relevance of these ideas is underlined by democratic events during 2011.
The committee's report also seeks to address media concerns that the operation of libel laws is stifling press freedom, and considers the balance between personal privacy and press freedom.
Free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion are rights.
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This is cause for alarm and requires urgent action, in the name of press freedom and the rights of citizens to be informed.
This brutal killing must be investigated and its perpetrators be brought to trial in the interest of press freedom and the fundamental human right of freedom of expression.
But the mature thing to do would be to explain to the British public that press freedom is itself the best guarantor of press transparency.
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The enjoyment of the right of freedom of expression and the respect of freedom of the press are pre-requisites for a successful transition to peace.
In Washington, earlier this year, I awarded the UNESCO Press Freedom Prize to an imprisoned Iranian journalist, Ahmad Zeidabadi.
On 3 May 2012, date of the World Press Freedom Day, a round-table will be held with media stakeholders and civil society representatives, including summarizing of the online discussion.
The document proposes abolishing emergency laws and restrictions on the formation of political parties and trade unions, giving the press greater freedom, providing better electoral safeguards and allowing direct, multi-candidate presidential elections.
Whether at UNESCO's General Conference in Paris last year, or the World Press Freedom Day in Brisbane in April this year, it's clear there are now widespread signs of unease about the loss of freedom of expression.
All this, note, to determine nothing less important than the balance between ensuring redress for victims of press intrusion and the freedom of the press, a judgement of such sensitivity that it would stretch Solomon, let alone our band of sleepy policymakers and campaigners.
That the way to get a free press is to limit the freedom of the press?
In this context, he added that the existence of an authority for media self-regulation can ensure the protection of press freedom, as well as the protection of the public from possible abuse by the media.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
Likewise, attacks against the press will undermine the freedom of everyone, rich and poor alike.
" He deflected another sensitive question by saying: "We do have freedom of the press, but such freedom should be subordinate to and serve the interests of the nation.
Meanwhile, the government has agreed that MPs will be given time to discuss the way ahead on the Leveson proposals on press freedom during the passage of the Crime and Courts Bill.
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