(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 6 November 2002 IAPA press release: IAPA asks Governments to Respect Press Freedom Miami (November 6, 2002) – During its recent General Assembly in Peru, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued 15 resolutions on press freedom calling on public officials from governments in the Americas to take specific […]
(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 6 November 2002 IAPA press release:
IAPA asks Governments to Respect Press Freedom
Miami (November 6, 2002) – During its recent General Assembly in Peru, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued 15 resolutions on press freedom calling on public officials from governments in the Americas to take specific action to improve the situation of press freedom in their countries.
After reviewing violations in nations across the western hemisphere for five days, the IAPA Assembly, which took place in Lima on October 25-29, resolved to take direct action on press freedom in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela.
Included among the many sessions at the annual IAPA meeting were presentations on crimes against journalists and the state of impunity in assassination cases in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico and Venezuela.
One of the actions taken by the hemispheric organization was to issue a recommendation that the Venezuelan government “seek an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the draft Content Law and Citizen Participation Act, to determine whether they are compatible with the rules of the American Convention on Human Rights.”
Resolutions on legal issues, condemnations of violations of the right to public information, and country-by-country reports on the situation of press freedom examined during the Assembly, can be found in Spanish and English on the IAPA web site, www.sipiapa.org.
