World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

(WAN/IFEX) – The following statement was released by WAN on 1 June 1998, in Kobe, Japan: Industrialised nations and international aid agencies must provide greater support to independent newspapers in developing and transitional countries because a free press is crucial for sustainable development, the President of the World Association of Newspapers said Monday, 1 June […]

(WAN/IFEX) – WAN issued the following statement on 26 May 1998: A debate on privacy laws in the wake of the Princess Diana tragedy and the present and future prospects for the newspaper industry are two of dozens of topics to be addressed when the world’s press gathers in Kobe, Japan, early next month. The […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has expressed concern over increasing press freedom abuses in Peru and has asked President Alberto Fujimori to investigate charges that reporters have been killed in recent days by “government people.” “We fear that a failure to treat these attacks with the utmost seriousness may exacerbate a situation […]

(WAN/IFEX) – WAN issued the following press release on 7 May 1998: **Updates IFEX alerts of 25 January 1996, 4 March 1996, 29 January 1997 and 4 November 1997** The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) on Thursday, 7 May 1998, intensified its campaign to win the release of imprisoned Vietnamese editor and academic Doan Viet […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following statement was released by WAN on 30 April 1998: Efforts to revive a “New World Information Order” at the United Nations will fail because the concept that would put control of the world’s information flow in the hands of governments is “dead”, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has declared. In an […]

(WAN/IFEX) – UN Secretary General Kofi Annan met with a delegation from the World Association of Newspapers on 14 April 1998 to discuss global press freedom and the UN’s role in curbing violence against media and repression of a free press. In an interview with the delegation, held at UN headquarters in New York, the […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The No Freedom… No Culture conference was held this week during the Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development which brought culture ministers from some 150 countries to Stockholm under the auspices of UNESCO and the Swedish Government. The conference, part of WAN’s 50th anniversary celebrations, brought together personalities from journalism, music and […]

(WAN/IFEX) – On 2 April 1998, the President of the World Association of Newspapers appealed to the world’s culture ministers to tear down the obstacles to free expression. “Some of the greatest obstacles to development, some of the greatest obstacles to the growth of the culture which could accelerate that development, and indeed human progress […]