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Press Freedom

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2011

The Prize is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza
Guillermo Cano

Journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza
Born in Bogota (Colombia) on August 12, 1925, Guillermo Cano Isaza was assassinated December 17, 1986, at the entrance to the office of El Espectador - where he had served as the editor since the age of 27. The newspaper's building was destroyed in a bomb attack three years later. His career-long commitment to diversity of opinion and the circumstances of his death - he had called for firm measures to be applied against drug traffickers - symbolise the price paid by journalists throughout the world to violence.

For further informations:

UNESCO Resolution on Unpunished Crimes

The InterAmerican Press Association: Investigative Case on Impunity