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Joint Message from Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General andMs. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the Occasion of World Press Freedom Day

3 May 2014

“Media Freedom for a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda”

This year, the international community has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to prepare a long-term agenda for sustainable development to succeed the Millennium Development Goals when they end in 2015. Successfully implementing that agenda will require that all populations enjoy the fundamental rights of freedom of opinion and expression. These rights are essential to democracy, transparency, accountability and the rule of law. They are vital for human dignity, social progress and inclusive, development.

World Press Freedom Day highlights the importance of independent, free and pluralistic media to protecting and promoting these rights. Journalism provides a platform for informed discussion across a wide range of development issues – from environmental challenges and scientific progress to gender equality, youth engagement and peacebuilding. Only when journalists are at liberty to monitor, investigate and criticize policies and actions can good governance exist.

Even as we look beyond 2015, we must confront current grave threats to press freedom around the world. In many countries journalists and other media workers face systematic obstacles to reporting the truth, ranging from censorship, arrest and imprisonment to intimidation, attacks and even assassination. These outrageous abuses show that press freedom and the human rights it underpins are extremely fragile and must be actively defended.

The United Nations General Assembly has unequivocally condemned all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers. Governments and all those with influence must now act on this condemnation by protecting journalists and other media workers. The United Nations stands ready to do its part. UN bodies are already working together and with other partners under the leadership of UNESCO to create a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers around the world.

On this World Press Freedom Day, we call on all States, societies and individuals to actively defend freedom of expression and press freedom as fundamental rights and as critical contributions to achieving the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the post-2015 development agenda.

Ban Ki-moon Irina Bokova

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World Press Freedom Day 2014 at a Glance

Monday, 5 May 2014

09:00-09:30 Registration (for all participants)

09:30-10:30 Opening Remarks Venue: Room II

10:30-12:00 Plenary 1: Media Freedom For a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda Venue: Room II

12:00-14:00 Lunch (by invitation) Sponsored by AlJazeera Media Network and Doha Centre for Media Freedom

14:00-15:30 Plenary 2: Development and The Rule of Law as Regards Safety of Journalists and Combating Impunity

Venue: Room II

15:30:16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Parallel Session 1: World Trends Report: Moving Forward

Venue: Room II

Parallel Session 2: Election Reporting in Francophone Countries

Venue: Room IV (in French only)

17:30-18:00 Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO and Aljazeera Media NetworkVenue: Room V

18:00* Reception “Vin d’Honneur” (by invitation)

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

09:00-10:30 Parallel Session 3: Transition to Public Media in the Southern

MediterraneanVenue: Room II

Parallel Session 4:Access to Information and the Post-2015

Development AgendaVenue: Room IV (in English only)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Special Session :Joint Statement By Special Rapporteurs

Venue: Room II

Working Group Session on Measurements, Assessment, & Indicators for Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) Venue: Room VI (in English only)

12:30-13:30 Closing Plenary Session and Adoption the Paris Declaration Venue: Room II

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-18:00 (without

interpretation)

Side-event (open): Digital Security TrainingOrganizer: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Language: French, Venue: Room III

Side-event (open): Multi-stakeholder Consultation on UNESCO’s Comprehensive Study on the Internet Language: English, Venue: Room V *Time: 15:00-16:30

Side-event (open): Security Training for JournalistsOrganizer: International Federation for Journalists (IFJ)

Language: English, Venue: Room VI

Side-event (by invitation): GFMD Steering Meeting Organizer: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

Venue: Room VII

Side-event (open): Planning Meeting for International Day to End ImpunityLanguage: English, Venue: Room 2.005

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World Press Freedom Day 2014 at a Glance

Monday, 5 May 2014

09:00-09:30 Registration (for all participants)

09:30-10:30 Opening Remarks Venue: Room II

Getachew ENGIDA, Deputy Director-General, UNESCORémy PFLIMLIN, President of France Télévisions

Ahmet ŞIK, 2014 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Laureate

10:30-12:00 Plenary 1: Media Freedom For a Better Future: Shaping the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Venue: Room II

Description:Good governance as essential to development is understood as the ability to guarantee the rule of law, freedom of expression, and open and accountable government. Freedom of expression, including press freedom, is an essential pillar of good governance because of its role in ensuring accountability and transparency. More broadly, the right to free expression also enables as many citizens as possible to shape the meaning of development, and to monitor and co-implement public decisions on development. Free media, on all platforms, provides a forum for discussion across a range of more specific issues pertaining to development, such as environment, science, gender, youth, peace, poverty and participation. Independent investigative journalism is an ally of open governance and thereby enhances the effectiveness, and thence the legitimacy, of development processes. Free media makes transparency a reality, without which corruption can become a major obstacle to development processes. Where media is not free, it cannot help to redress threats to development such as a culture of destructive conflict, of misinformation and rumour, and ultimately, of state failure.

Moderator: Guy BERGER, Director, Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO

Speakers: • Agnes CALLAMARD, Director Global Freedom of Expression Project & Special Adviser to the President Columbia University, USA • Robert ZAAL, Director-General, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) & Member of Global Alliance

of International Broadcasters (DG7) • Naranjargal KHASHKUU, Chairperson, Globe International, Mongolia• Leon WILLEMS, Chairperson, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) • Veridiana SEDEH, Former Executive Director, Brazilian Association for Investigative Journalism, Brazil• Ernest SAGAGA, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)• Moez CHAKCHOUK, Director of Tunisian Internet Agency, Tunisia• Jeanne BOURGAULT, President and CEO, Internews• Larry KILMAN, Secretary-General, WAN-IFRA

12:00-14:00 Lunch (by invitation)Sponsored by AlJazeera Media Network and Doha Centre for Media Freedom

14:00-15:30 Plenary 2Development and The Rule of Law as Regards Safety of Journalists and Combating Impunity

Venue: Room IIDescription:The rule of law is a prerequisite for, as well as an outcome of, a successful development agenda. The report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda noted that “the rule of law, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice and active citizen participation, access to justice, non-discriminatory and accountable governments and public institutions help drive development and have their own intrinsic value. They are both means to an end and an end in themselves”. When the rule of law is respected, citizens can have confidence in public processes over the long term and invest in the sustainable development of their society. In order to be respected, the rule of law needs to be visible – particularly in regard to being applied to ending impunity for those who commit crimes against journalists. In addition, journalists need to be free to monitor and investigate performance on the rule of law, to highlight its connections to development and to report on the right to peaceful assembly. The news media have a crucial role in promoting vigilance towards the rule of law,

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especially through fostering investigative journalism, publicising court, legislative and administrative proceedings, promoting open access to officials and to public documents, and interrogating the relations between justice and social exclusion. Indicators for the Post-2015 targets on rule of law, as applied to media, could include (i) Number of journalists threatened, killed, disappeared, illegally held, and tortured; (ii) number of cases of impunity for attacks on journalists, assessed through the proportion of legally unresolved incidents in relation to total reported incidents; (iii) Number of violations by security officials of legal rights of journalists to do reporting; and (iv) Extent of censorship, jamming, blocking, filtering and surveillance that exceeds international standards for legitimate limitations on freedom of expression. All these measures undermine the rule of law and constrain development by producing a restricted information environment.

Moderator: Martine LAROCHE JOUBERT, Journalist, France Télévisions

Speakers: • Mostefa SOUAG, Acting Managing Director, Aljazeera Media Network, Qatar • Onur, ANDREOTTI, Legal Expert, Council of Europe• Christophe DELOIRE, Secretary-General, RSF• Elisa LEES MUNOZ, Executive Director, International Women’s Media Foundation• Peter HORROCKS, Director of the BBC World Service, United Kingdom • Claudia Julieta DUQUE, Journalist, Radio Nizkor, Colombia• Jesper HØJBERG, Executive Director, International Media Support (IMS) • Christophe GUILHOU, Director, Democracy, Human Rights and Peace, OIF• Uzra ZEYA, Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor, USA

*Testimony from Maison des Journalistes

15:30:16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Parallel Session 1: World Trends Report: Moving Forward

Venue: Room II

Description: UNESCO recently published the report on World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. This launch event at UNESCO is also an opportunity to discuss how this report can be used by governments, the media, academia, the private sector and civil society to create better policy conducive to media development. The study examines the development of media, considered across the dimensions of media freedom, independence, pluralism and journalists’ safety. These areas are explored at the international level and with respect to gender and global media. The publication highlights challenges to media development at a time of unprecedented opportunities for expression of new voices as well economic difficulty in supporting journalism and the rise of new forms of restriction, surveillance and control.

Moderator: Getachew ENGIDA, Deputy Director-General, UNESCO

Introductory remarks:Annika MARKOVIC, Ambassador of Sweden to UNESCO and OECD

Speakers: • Guy BERGER, Director, Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO

Parallel Session 2: Election Reporting in Francophone Countries Organizer: Organisation internationale de la

Francophonie Venue: Room IV (in French only)

Description: Elections can be a period of heightened tension amongst the various stakeholders, leading to destructive rather than developmental outcomes. The importance of professional and quality reporting becomes even more apparent during electoral periods. The objective of this session is to address, in a practical way, the contribution of coverage to a peaceful and fair election process. Issues of safety of journalists, the role of regulatory bodies, and the relationship between journalists and the authorities, as well as the use and role of new media, will be part of the discussion.

Moderator: Tidiane DIOH, Media Programme Manager, OIF

Speakers:• Seidik ABBA, Editor-in-Chief, Jeune Afrique,

France• Neïmatou COULIBALY, Director, Le Combat, Mali• Jocelyn GRANGE, Programme Manager, Pair-à-Pair Medi Media Project, France• Amina LEMRINI ELOUAHABI, President, High Authority of Audiovisual Communication, Morocco • Freddy MATA MATUNDU, Journalists for Human Rights, DRC

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• Thijs BERMAN, Member of the European Parliament• Remzi LANI, Advisory Group Member • Marius DRAGOMIR, Advisory Group Member• Biljana TATOMIR, Advisory Group Member• Kwame KARIKARI, Advisory Group Member• Abeer NAJJAR, Advisory Group Member• Sara KEUSEN, Press Counsellor, Swedish

Embassy, France• Rosental ALVES, UNESCO/Knight Chair for

Journalism in the Americas

17:30-18:00 Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO and Aljazeera Media NetworkVenue: Room V

18:00-20:00 Reception “Vin d’Honneur” (by invitation)

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

09:00-10:30 Parallel Session 3: Transition to Public Media in the Southern

MediterraneanOrganizer: International Federation of

Journalists & European Broadcasting Union Venue: Room II

Description: Public media can only contribute to fostering democracy, diversity and progress in society, if it operates in an open and independent environment. New challenges have arisen in Southern Mediterranean countries in recent years, in a context of deep political change. Transition to public service media remains a major one. This session will discuss current trends including the lack of editorial independence, the rise of social media as an alternative source of news and opinion, and the relation of global and regional media to local media. The session will also highlight the Med Media, a new EU-funded project launched to support media reform in the Southern Mediterranean countries, with a focus on broadcasting. Moderator: Jim BOUMELHA, President, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)Speakers:• Younes MJAHED, President, Syndicat National de la Presse Marocaine• Michael RANDALL, MedMedia Team Leader• Paola PARRI, COPEAM SG Coordinator on

European Projects• Giacomo MAZZONE, Head of Institutional Relations, European Broadcasting Union • Toby MENDEL, Director Centre for Law and Democracy• Habiba MEJRI-CHEIKH, Director of Communication, African Union• Bernd RÖßLE, Regional Coordinator Northern Africa, DW Akademie• Christina DAHLMAN, Directorate General for

Development and Cooperation- EuropeAid, European Commision

Parallel Session 4:Access to Information and the Post-2015

Development AgendaOrganizer: Media Institute of Southern Africa

(MISA)Venue: Room IV (in English only)

Description: Access to information (ATI) enables citizens and organisations to acquire knowledge and to actively participate in and benefit from development processes. Only through the availability and accessibility of information on development issues can citizens be empowered with choice and control over the decisions that impact on their socio-economic wellbeing. Sustainable democracies and functioning political processes require open communication environments between governors and governed. Through this panel discussion, the African Platform for Access to Information (APAI) hopes to illustrate the importance of ATI to the post 2015 development agenda, and to analyze how this access can be integrated in the new global objectives. The experiences of media in promoting access and transparency will be part of this discussion.

Moderator: Edetaen OJO, Executive Director, Media Rights AgendaSpeakers:• Gabriella RAZZANO, Head of Research, Open Democracy Advice Centre• Gwen LISTER, Chairperson, Namibia Media Trust

& Representative of MISA• Sadibou MARONG, Programme Officer, Eastern Africa Journalists Association (EAJA) • Yuli ISMARTONO, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Tempo, Indonesia• Jaime Abello BANFI, CEO and co-founder of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Latin American Journalism (FNPI), Columbia• Luis ESQUIVEL, Access to Information Programme, World Bank Institute

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10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Special Session: Joint Statement by Special Rapporteurs

Organizer: Article 19 Venue: Room II

Description: At this session, the international mandates on freedom of expression will launch their 2014 Joint Declaration on Universality and the Right to Freedom of Expression. The Joint Declaration highlights the importance of universality as a freedom of expression concept – both in terms of the need to ensure that all individuals and groups in society can enjoy this right and in terms of its universal features and characteristics. It outlines key recommendations for States to ensure universality of enjoyment of this right without any discrimination and that laws, regulations, customs and practices are not used to undermine the right.

Moderator: Thomas HUGHES, Executive Director, Article 19

Speakers: • Catalina BOTERO, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS• Dunja MIJATOVIĆ, Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE• Frank LA RUE, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Working Group Session on Measurements, Assessment, & Indicators for Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) Venue: Room VI (in English only)

Description: The “new sustainable development goals” to replace the Millennium Development Goals will consist of a set of broader “macro-level” goals as well as more specific targets and indicators. Defining measuring, monitoring and reporting, and assessing effectiveness in relation to these targets and indicators is the next challenge facing the international community. This session will discuss the various stakes around the measurement of SDGs when it comes to the impact of independent media, freedom of expression and access to information on Development. Questions to be covered include: What should be the targets? What research is needed, and what monitoring and reporting mechanisms are possible?

Moderator: Fackson BANDA, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO

Contributors:• Abdeljalil ALAMI, Chair, Doha Centre for Media Freedom Executive Committee, Qatar• Jan LUBLINSKI, Project Manager, Research & Development, DW Akademie • Tara SUSMAN-PEÑA, Senior Research Officer, Internews • Dave BANISAR, Senior Legal Counsel, Article 19, UK• James DEANE, Director, Policy and Learning, BBC Media Action• Naregh GALOUSTIAN, Project Manager DRC and Middle East Programme, Journalists for Human Rights• Flora GRAIONI, IREX Europe• Rosemary D’AMOUR, Associate Editor, CIMA-NED• Susan ABBOTT, Director, Cross-Pollinate Consulting Solutions, USA• Caroline GIRAUD, Coordinator, GFMD• Antonio SAVOIA, Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK• Barbara TRIONFI, International Press Institute

(IPI)

12:30-13:30 Closing Plenary Session and Adoption the Paris Declaration Venue: Room II

Introductory Remarks: Getachew ENGIDA, Deputy Director-General, UNESCOModerator: William HORSLEY, International Director, Centre for Freedom of the Media, UK

H.E. Ellen JOHNSON-SIRLEAF, President of Liberia (virtually)Frank LA RUE, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of

Opinion and ExpressionMaina KIAI, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association

Ljiljana ZUROVAC, Executive Director, Press Council, Bosnia and HerzegovinaYing CHAN, Founding Director, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, Hong Kong University

Thomas HUGHES, Executive Director, Article 19*Special Announcement from the 2015 Host Country*

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13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-18:00(without

interpretation)

Side-event (open): Digital Security TrainingOrganizer: Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Language: French, Venue: Room IIIDescription: In two hours, participants will be sensitized to the dangers online and discover how a good digital habit could help protect their computers, mobile phones, and online services including social media, email, and data storing in the cloud). Estimated number of participants: 20 people.

Side-event (open): Multi-stakeholder Consultation on UNESCO’s Comprehensive Study on the Internet Language: English, Venue: Room V, Time: 15:00-16:30

Description: Roundtable discussion with audience on UNESCO’s ongoing Comprehensive Study of Internet-related issues which will inform the decision-making by Member States at their General Conference in 2013. The discussion focuses in the four fields of the Study (i) Access to information and knowledge, (ii) Freedom of expression, (iii) Privacy, and (iv) Ethical dimensions of the information society, and also explores possible options for future actions as related to global Internet governance. More info: www.unesco.org/new/internetstudy

Side-event (open): Security Training for JournalistsOrganizer: International Federation for Journalists (IFJ)

Language: English, Venue: Room VIThe event aims at highlighting pressing issues concerning the safety of journalists in a number of countries and deals with first-hand accounts of journalists’ daily experience while doing their work. Participants, including journalists and their organisations’ leaders, will discuss strategies and programmes that IFJ affiliates have adopted to contribute to their protection, such as training in life-saving skills and multi-level advocacy in combating impunity for violence on journalists. Estimated number of participants: 25 people

Side-event (by invitation): GFMD Steering Meeting Organizer: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

Venue: Room VII Contact: chairman@gfmd.info

Side-event (open): Planning Meeting for International Day to End ImpunityLanguage: English, Venue: Room 2.005

The date of 2 November 2014 will be the first UN-recognised “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists”. It will also be the start of the annual three-week international civil society campaign led by IFEX, which culminates on 23 November. UNESCO is working with partners to observe the day through engaging with the judicial sector on the rule of law concerning attacks on journalists. Participants in this side-event will brainstorm how diverse activities worldwide can add up to concerted impact, and it will also include discussion of a related event to review the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.

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