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“Without a free press there is no democracy”

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Ricardo Hernández, winner of the 2023 Breach/Valdez Award for Journalism and Human Rights, believes the right to a free press is essential for the protection and promotion of other fundamental human rights. In Mexico, the price for that right can be death.

Griselda Triana: Fighting for freedom of expression in Mexico

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© Still of Griselda Triana at the Javier Valdez memorial in “Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl” in Mexico City.
Journalist and activist Griselda Triana fights for freedom of the press and for reparations for families of murdered, displaced, and disappeared journalists in Mexico – and she fights from personal experience.

A/HRC/54/49: Summary report of the panel discussion on digital, media and information literacy

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The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 50/15, in which the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including in consultation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant United Nations bodies, to convene at its fifty-third session a panel discussion, fully accessible to persons with disabilities, on the role of digital, media and information literacy in the promotion and enjoyment of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

"Journalism may be our only hope to secure human rights."

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Herman Grech is the Editor in chief of the Times of Malta Photo credit: © Lindsey Bahia
Maltese journalist Herman Grech wrote, directed and produced a play on a murder investigation that delves into the heart of freedom of expression and its impact on human rights.

Women journalists must be protected from violence and harassment

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Alt text: Zuhal Ahad is a freelance journalist in Canada. © Courtesy of Zuhal Ahad
While Afghan Zuhal Ahad faced constant harassment by the Taliban for her coverage of women’s affairs, she continued to risk her life to tell the important stories that impacted the people in her country.