World Press Freedom Day

Today, Monday May 3, 2010 is World Press Freedom Day

UNESCO have called for a minutes silence in newsrooms round the world to remember the journalists who have paid with their lives for our right to know. In 2009 UNESCO condemned the deaths of 77 journalists, most of whom were reporting local stories, not war.

UNESCO calls on media workers to denounce the murder of journalists and to demand an end to impunity for their killers.