Media News - Monday, May 05, 2008
Rights group highlight threats in Europe on press freedom day
Media rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF) marked World Press Freedom Day Saturday by highlighting threats to journalists' safety inside Europe. Elsewhere meanwhile, journalists and international organisations highlighted what they said were attacks on media rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America. RSF's new report on the media rights situation inside the EU acknowledged: ‘There is genuine press freedom within the European Union. ‘No state has ordered the murder or imprisonment of a journalist and state censorship is a thing of the past.’ But it highlighted problems of security faced by some journalists in several western European countries including France, Denmark Italy, Northern Ireland and Spain. The World Association of Newspapers on Saturday issued a statement denouncing what it called China's broken promises regarding human rights reforms ahead of the Olympic Games. UNESCO, the UN cultural organisation, honoured Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro for her coverage of political corruption, organized crime and domestic violence in Mexico. They awarded her the 2008 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. (AFP)
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