IAPA meeting in Paraguay: The changes brought about by new audiences MIAMI, Florida (March 9, 2009)The battle for new online audiences in a crammed universe of Web sites will be the topic to open a packed program of seminars and panel discussions during the Midyear Meeting of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) to be held March 13-16 at the Hotel Yacht y Golf in Asunción, Paraguay.
A hundred Paraguayan harps to welcome IAPA delegates in Asunción MIAMI, Florida (March 11, 2009)Some 300 newspaper editors and publishers from throughout the Americas will gather in Asunción, Paraguay this Friday for the meeting until March 16 of the Midyear Meeting of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) to learn, among other things, of the state of freedom of the press in the hemisphere.
IAPA celebrates 15th anniversary of Declaration of Chapultepec: "The little document that could" Miami, March 12, 2009. The IAPA today calls on citizens across the Americas to protect transparency and freedom of expression to mark the 15th anniversary of The Declaration of Chapultepec. Sponsored by the IAPA and the McCormick Foundation and drafted by 100 private citizens, the document was adopted and signed on March 11, 1994 in the castle of the same name in Mexico City.
IAPA submits case of missing Mexican journalist to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ASUNCION, Paraguay (March 12, 2009)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) here for its Midyear Meeting that opens tomorrow announced it will submit the case involving the disappearance of Mexican journalist Alfredo Jiménez Mota to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Jimenez Mota's disappearance led the organization to intensify its battle against violence and impunity in Mexico.
IAPA Announces 2009 Scholarship Winners Miami (March 16, 2009) - The Scholarship Fund Board of Governors of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has selected this years scholarship winners during the Midyear Meeting in Asunción, Paraguay, on March 13 -16, 2009.
Climate of press freedom in the Americas worsens ASUNCION, Paraguay (March 16, 2009)--The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) wound up its Midyear Meeting here today declaring that freedom of the press in the Americas deteriorated over the last six months in face of several adverse factors including the murders of journalists and violence against them, campaigns to discredit the press and a climate of hostility by some governments towards news media and reporters and as a consequence of the US newspaper industry crisis.
Climate of press freedom in the Americas worsens. IAPA issues biannual conclusions ASUNCION, Paraguay (March 16, 2009)--The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) wound up its Midyear Meeting here today declaring that freedom of the press in the Americas deteriorated over the last six months in face of several adverse factors including the murders of journalists and violence against them, campaigns to discredit the press and a climate of hostility by some governments towards news media and reporters and as a consequence of the US newspaper industry crisis.
IAPA Resolution honors 15th Anniversary of the Declaration of Chapultepec. Members award Asdrubal Aguiar, Venezuelan academic and human rights legal expert, the 2009 Chapultepec Grand Prize Miami, March 17, 2009. IAPA members voted unanimously at their Midyear meeting to recognize the 15th anniversary of the Declaration of Chapultepec -- standard bearer of press freedom and freedom of expression -- by committing to continue to uphold its principles, declaring its values universal and mandatory in the constitutions of free nations, celebrating Declaration of Chapultepec Month in March and Press Freedom Day on May 3 and informing and educating the public on how to identify respect for and breaches of its 10 principles.
IAPA calls on Cuban government to release independent journalists Miami (March 18, 2009)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today criticized the persecution by Cuba's political police of independent journalists and called for the unconditional release of those that are imprisoned. The call was made in commemoration of the sixth anniversary of the Primavera Negra (Black Spring) wave of repression in March 2003 when 75 political opponents of the Fidel Castro regime, independent journalists, human rights advocates, librarians and independent labor unionists were arrested and convicted.
