Attending the IAPA’s half-yearly meeting there will be some 250 newspaper editors and publishers from throughout the Americas who among other topics will discuss reports on the state of press freedom in their countries.
Attending the IAPA’s half-yearly meeting there will be some 250 newspaper editors and publishers from throughout the Americas who among other topics will discuss reports on the state of press freedom in their countries.
At the same time a roundtable discussion will review the 10 years in building a hemispheric agenda on freedom of expression, with the participation of Catalina Botero, the Organization of American States’ special rapporteur for freedom of expression, and Franklin La Rue, her United Nations counterpart, with the executive secretary of the OAS’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Santiago Cantón, acting as moderator.
Another panel discussion will explore the issue of how to earn credibility and learn from the complaints and comments they obtain from their Ombudsmen, using them to raise the quality of their publication. Panelists will present a plan for overcoming these obstacles. They will focus on the document “Aspirations of de IAPA”.
In addition to a packed agenda dealing with the organization’s internal affairs several other current issues are to be taken up by the IAPA in its conferences, seminars and panel discussions. Among these will be a presentation on strategy employed in the war on drugs to be given by former Colombian president and secretary general of the Organization of America States, César Gaviria.
More information on these and other activities of the IAPA and its Press Institute is available on the Web sites www.sipiapa.org and www.institutodeprensa.com.
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