Press Freedom Day to feature Nobel Peace Laureates

The 2022 World Press Freedom Day is expected to engage Nobel Peace prize laureates. The event is co-organised with the Nobel Peace Summit on the role of journalism in promoting peace.

With the theme, “Journalism under digital siege,” the event is scheduled to hold from May 2 to 5, 2022 in Uruguay. It is also expected to serve as springboard for new initiatives, address digital threats jeopardising free and independent journalism, safety of the journalists; protection of journalists from spyware and hacking, improve media viability and safeguarding information as a public good. The conference will headline the commemoration of 10th Anniversary of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, to hold in Vienna, Austria on November 2. The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Award Ceremony is equally scheduled for that day.

Other high-level sessions include, a special session on the recently adopted UNESCO’s recommendations on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, a session on the protection of artistic freedom, freedom of expression and scientific freedom; the launch of the joint declaration by special mandates on freedom of expression and a debate between Presidents and Chief Justices of Regional Human Rights Courts.

Confirmed speakers in the opening talkshow, “Journalism under Digital Siege,” include CEO of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart; Colombian investigative journalist, Claudia Duque; Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), Timnit Gebru and author, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School, Shoshana Zuboff.