Declaration of Windhoek

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The Windhoek Declaration (officially English Windhoek Declaration ) is, in a statement "the creation of an independent, pluralistic and free press " ( press freedom ) as "the cornerstone of democracy called and economic development" and is required. It was on 3. May 1991 on a UNESCO - meeting in the Namibian capital Windhoek adopted.

At the suggestion of UNESCO, the UN General Assembly declared May 3 International Day of Press Freedom on December 20, 1993 in memory of the adoption of the declaration .

literature

  • Alain Modoux: From Windhoek to the World . In: Elizabeth Barratt, Guy Berger (Eds.): 50 Years of Journalism. African media since Ghana's independence . The African Editors' Forum / Highway Africa / Media Foundation for West Africa, Johannesburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-86810-438-6 , pp. 173 ( PDF file ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Impact Of The Windhoek Declaration. In: namibian.com . April 29, 2016, accessed May 3, 2017 .