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World Press Freedom Day
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Where it comes from
World Press Freedom Day marks the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of press freedom principles drawn up by African newspaper journalists at a UNESCO seminar in Windhoek, Namibia, and adopted on 3 May 1991. It called for a press that is free, independent and pluralistic.
How it's celebrated
UNESCO hosts an international conference on the most pressing questions facing the media, and presents the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, to a person or group that has stood up for press freedom, often in the face of danger.
Did you know
The Windhoek Declaration was the first of a series of regional declarations on press freedom adopted around the world.
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