The Laureates of the 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize are Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, reporters for Reuters in Myanmar. The Award ceremony of Prize took place on 2 May during the World Press Freedom Day Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was created in 1997. It honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger. The Prize was established on the initiative of UNESCO’s Executive Board and is formally conferred on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. The Prize named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia on 17 December 1986
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Credits: Music: “Seeker” by Kai Engel licensed under a Attribution License CC BY 4.0
Footage:
Footage of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – courtesy of Reuters
The Bitter Taste of Freedom – courtesy of Dixit
International Between the Lines – courtesy of Highlight Films Israel
Footage of Guillermo Cano – courtesy of Caracol TV
The Naked Truth of Myanmar - courtesy of DVB
Multimedia Group Footage of Khadija Ismayilova – courtesy of Radio Free Europe/RL
Footage of May Chidiac - courtesy of May Chidiac Foundation