The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was established in 1997, on the initiative of UNESCO's Executive Board and is formally conferred by the Director-General of the Organization on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May. GREAT NEWS! All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. His death, ordered by Pablo Escobar, because of his work as Minister in prosecuting cocaine traffickers mainly belonging to the Medellín Cartel. We were unable to submit your feedback at this time. Guillermo Cano's career-long commitment to diversity of opinion and the circumstances of his death symbolise the price paid by journalists worldwide for exercising their profession. Magistrate Carlos Ernesto Valencia García of the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá.
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The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was established in 1997, on the initiative of UNESCO's Executive Board and is formally conferred by the Director-General of the Organization on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May.
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index was released in April, and revealed that India has dropped to rank 142, two points below its 2019 rank. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. The Reuters journalists, who were serving seven-year prison sentences at the time of being awarded, were arrested in the city of Yangon in 2017 while reporting human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s state of Rakhine. On January 25, 1991, during a mishandled rescue operation launched by the Colombia National Police, she was killed.
On August 30, 1990, she was tricked into believing she was going to interview a controversial guerrilla leader. Resend Activation Email. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. GREAT NEWS! An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request. His parents are …
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Institutes and Centres linked to Communication and Information, Linguistic diversity and multilingualism on Internet, UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, Communication for sustainable development, Professional Journalistic Standards and Code of Ethics, Extrabudgetary Projects on Freedom of Expression, Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Responses, Condemnation of violence against journalists, Working with Development Partners to Promote Freedom of Expression, Communication and Information Sector (CI). English The life of Guillermo Cano, his courage, his compromise with independent journalism and the tenacity with which he fought for his country are an example for the rest of the world to follow.
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She murdered months after she charged Medellin Cartel capo’s Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha with the massacre of 66 peasant farmers in April 1988. Please click on the link below. On August 16, 1989, he, was assassinated while driving home with his bodyguards. It also reported coordinated social media hate campaigns against journalists reporting on issues that “annoy Hindutva followers”, criminal prosecutions to gag journalists critical of authorities and police violence against journalists, and the lack of press freedom in Kashmir. The honor was named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated by drug gangs, right outside his newspaper El Espectador’s office in Colombia in 1986.
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