UNESCO promotes freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right, through sensitization and monitoring activities. It also fosters media independence and pluralism as prerequisites and major factors of democratization by providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments, parliamentarians and other decision-makers.

WSIS Forum 2011

UNESCO is organizing an Interactive Facilitation Meeting (IFM) "Media Regulation: Broadcasters and Social Media" (C9) on 18 May 2011 during the WSIS Forum 2011 to be held at the ILO Conference Centre, in Geneva, Switzerland from 16-20 May 2011. >> Read more

19-07-2011 (Maseru) 

Broadcasting regulation workshop is taking place this week in Lesotho

30-06-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO launches Story-based inquiry: a manual for investigative journalists

14-06-2011 (Paris) 

Global survey on Internet privacy: UNESCO calls for proposals

10-06-2011 (Port-au-Prince) 

UNESCO and IOF take joint action for Haitian media

10-06-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General calls on Syrian authorities to restore internet services to citizens and cease attacks against media

06-06-2011 (Santo Domingo) 

Inauguration of Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance

25-05-2011 (Paris) 

Freedom of Connection, Freedom of Expression: UNESCO launches new publication

17-05-2011 (Geneva) 

UNESCO hosts High Level Debate on Right to Communication at WSIS Forum 2011

16-05-2011 (Geneva) 

Briefing session on World Press Freedom Day at WSIS Forum 2011

02-05-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General calls for freedom of expression to be protected worldwide

17-03-2011 (Brasilia) 

UNESCO releases three publications analyzing media regulation and freedom of expression in Brazil

04-02-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General calls for a halt to abuses against media in Egypt

31-01-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO symposium sparked debate on future of freedom of expression

27-01-2011 (Paris) 

Irina Bokova promotes freedom of expression as a fundamental human right

26-01-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO hosts discussions on freedom of expression and journalism ethics

18-01-2011 (Paris) 

State of press freedom the theme of UNESCO symposium and conference

31-12-2010 (Quito) 

Improving freedom of expression monitoring in Andean region

31-12-2010 (Quito) 

Conference on freedom of expression organized in Bolivia

10-12-2010 (Doha) 

UNESCO and Al Jazeera to promote freedom of expression in the Arab world

08-12-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO to host International Symposium on Freedom of Expression

10-11-2010 (Paris) 

Arab New Media for Peace and Dialogue: Best practice guide published

22-09-2010 (Brasilia) 

UNESCO and ALAIC establish partnership to promote freedom of expression and pluralism in Latin America

06-09-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO to launch the “Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet” report at the Fifth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania

27-08-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO supported Summer School in China on Media Ethics

27-07-2010 (Quito) 

UNESCO’s comic book on freedom of expression disseminated in Ecuador

28-05-2010 (Kathmandu) 

Nepal celebrated World Press Freedom Day

14-05-2010 (Moscow) 

World Press Freedom Day celebrated in Moscow

12-05-2010 (Quito) 

UNESCO’s Quito Office releases comic book on freedom of expression

08-04-2010 (Moscow) 

Photo and television contest to commemorate World Press Freedom Day

04-03-2010 (Amman) 

Online culture of peace discussed at Arab New Media Summit

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