Articles by Inter American Press Association
Nelson Carvajal Case: IAPA and RFK Human Rights assess compliance with Inter-American Court ruling
The IAPA and the RFK Human Rights feel that the Colombian government complied with one resolution of the court ruling, concerning the holding of a public act of recognition of international responsibility in the presence of 18 members of the Carvajal family.
IAPA condemns stigmatization of the press, saying it puts journalists’ lives at risk
IAPA expressed concern at campaigns stigmatizing journalists in Colombia and the United States that limit press freedom, and weaken public debate in a democracy.
Threats to free expression and the independent press in Cuba
Journalists Osmel Ramírez, Niober García Fournier and Roberto de Jesús Quiñones continue to be strictly forbidden to leave the country or even, at times, to leave the province in which they live. They have been arrested or summoned on several occasions, have received threats against their families or have been threatened with imprisonment.
Violence against journalists and impunity a constant in Haiti
The crisis in the country worsened in the last six months with mass protests against the government’s policies and state corruption. The protests resulted in almost three dozen deaths and some one hundred injuries, among them a news photographer in an incident that brought attention to the constant danger that the press faces.
IFEX-ALC, AMARC-ALC, and IAPA to present recommendations for addressing Nicaragua’s deteriorating free expression climate ahead of UN review
IFEX-ALC is sending a joint delegation alongside the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-ALC) and the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) to the UN Office in Geneva in the run-up to Nicaragua’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 15 May.
Family members of murdered journalist to be addressed in “public act of recognition”
IAPA President María Elvira Domínguez said, “We are pleased that after so many years of seeking justice in the case of Nelson [Carvajal] and his family members we will be witnesses and part of a ceremony in which there will be recognized the need to obtain justice for cases such as this one not to occur again.”
Nicaraguan government withholds delivery of supplies to two newspapers
IAPA condemned the administrative censorship imposed by the Nicaraguan government on La Prensa and El Nuevo Diario, by withholding the delivery of supplies for the publication of the two newspapers.
IAPA 2018 review: Highs and lows of press freedom in the Americas
The president of the IAPA declared that advances in legal and digital issues were overshadowed by the murders of 31 journalists and media workers, the imprisonment of five others, and by the constant attacks on individual and social liberties in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.