GJA Joins Global Community To Mark World Press Freedom Day Today

Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) leads the worldwide celebration by identifying the global thematic and organising events in different parts of world every year.

The theme for this year's World Press Freedom Day is: Critical Minds for Critical Times: Media’s role in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies

The international day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the 26th Session of UNESCO's General Conference in 1991. 

This in turn was a response to a call by African journalists who in 1991 produced the landmark Windhoek Declaration on media pluralism and independence.

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will, hold a public lecture and flag-raising ceremony to mark World Press Freedom Day.

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