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UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye, has urged governments to end the demonisation of critical media and ensure the protection of journalists.

Broadcast media are already regulated by a state agency. The authors said Most were not worldwide journalists, few had the support of major news outlets, and most died after fighting insurmountable odds, daily threats and constant pressures. In Botswana, two journalists from the INK Centre for Investigative Journalism were briefly detained and threatened with death by plainclothes security agents after they tried to access an area where a private holiday home was being built for President Ian Khama. I commend the Government of National Unity for its efforts to better engage with the press. Free media and an independent, effective judiciary play a mutually reinforcing role as pillars of democracy.

The global day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the 26th Session of UNESCOs General Conference in 1991.

Reporters Without Borders, a non-profit organization with the mission to safeguard the freedom of information globally, released its 2017 World Press Freedom Index on May 3rd, which ranks countries on the level of freedom available to the media.

IFJ General Secretary, Anthony Bellanger said that the survey shows the continuing threats throughout the world to media freedom and journalists rights but it also shows the daily and sometimes heroic work being done by journalists unions and organisations across the globe to defend the professional and social rights of journalists.

So, today let us pause to remember those courageous members of the media we lost in the past year while celebrating those who fight daily to uncover truth and tell us the stories we would otherwise never know.

May 3 was declared World Press Freedom Day by the United Nations in 1993 after a 1991 United Nations conference in Windhoek, Namibia, where African newspaper journalists presented a paper on press freedom principles.

Today, being World Press Freedom Day, participate in the poll below and share your thoughts. The EU consistently opposes in bilateral contacts with third countries as well as in multilateral and regional fora any legislation, regulation or political pressure that limits freedom of expression and takes concrete steps to prevent and respond to attacks against journalists and bloggers.

The CIVICUS Monitor, a new online platform that assesses the quality of civic space in every country, records 101 attacks on journalists between June 2016 and March 2017.

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