Twenty years after the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom
Twenty years after the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom
Twenty years after the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom
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establishment of news media outlets, including<br />
restrictive import duties, tariffs and quotas for<br />
such things as newsprint, printing equipment, and<br />
typesetting and word processing machinery, and<br />
taxes <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sale of newspapers, as a prelude to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir<br />
removal;<br />
b. training of journalists and managers and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
availability of professi<strong>on</strong>al training instituti<strong>on</strong>s and<br />
courses;<br />
c. legal barriers to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> recogniti<strong>on</strong> and effective operati<strong>on</strong><br />
of trade uni<strong>on</strong>s or associati<strong>on</strong>s of journalists, editors<br />
and publishers;<br />
d. a register of available funding from development and<br />
o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r agencies, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s attaching to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> release<br />
of such funds, and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> methods of applying for <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m;<br />
e. <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> state of <strong>press</strong> <strong>freedom</strong>, country by country, in<br />
Africa.<br />
17. In view of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> importance of radio and televisi<strong>on</strong><br />
in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> field of news and informati<strong>on</strong>, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> United<br />
Nati<strong>on</strong>s and UNESCO are invited to recommend to<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> General Assembly and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> General C<strong>on</strong>ference<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>vening of a similar seminar of journalists and<br />
managers of radio and televisi<strong>on</strong> services in Africa, to<br />
explore <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> possibility of applying similar c<strong>on</strong>cepts of<br />
independence and pluralism to those media.<br />
18. The internati<strong>on</strong>al community should c<strong>on</strong>tribute to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
achievement and implementati<strong>on</strong> of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> initiatives<br />
and projects set out in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> annex to this <str<strong>on</strong>g>Declarati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g>.<br />
19. This <str<strong>on</strong>g>Declarati<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> should be presented by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
SecretaryGeneral of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> United Nati<strong>on</strong>s to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> United<br />
Nati<strong>on</strong>s General Assembly, and by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> DirectorGeneral<br />
of UNESCO to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> General C<strong>on</strong>ference of UNESCO.<br />
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