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World Press Freedom Day on the 3 May celebrated 30 years of the Windhoek Declaration, which was a landmark statement on media freedom. That Declaration outlines the fundamental importance of fostering and defending free, independent media in building strong open, democratic societies.
The words from Windhoek in 1991 were echoed later that year in Moscow, when all OSCE participating States recognized “that independent media are essential to a free and open society and accountable systems of government and are of particular importance in safeguarding human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
Unfortunately, as we mark the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration and the OSCE commitments agreed in Moscow in 1991, we must acknowledge there are too many violations of media freedom across the OSCE region. We have discussed many of them in the Permanent Council over recent months. Next week, the Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) will undoubtedly highlight
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In the last few days, two international events were held in Nigeria. The first was the International Workers’ Day and the second, World Press Freedom Day. Last Saturday, May 1, 2021 was the International Labour Day, also known as Workers Day or May Day. In Nigeria, in order to enable workers to mark the day, the Federal Government declared Monday, May 3, 2021 as public holiday. In celebration of the day, workers filed out in their numbers at stadia across the country to celebrate with march past and speeches from the governors and the labour union leaders. In Abuja, the President was represented at the ceremony at the Eagle Square by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who assured workers of better packages to cushion the economic effects of COVID-19 on their resources, stressing that his regime had put in place some socio-economic policies to alleviate poverty. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, in hi
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National View: Lies are undermining press freedom in the US
From the column: Hannah Arendt, the great expert on totalitarian rule, said in 1974: What makes it possible for a dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed. If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. With such a people you can then do what you please .
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Monday was World Press Freedom Day, a United Nations-approved reminder to governments to respect press freedom that most nations ignore.
The 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders reports that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries ranked by the organization.