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In an effort to call attention to it's credo-that the ability of nations to solve their problems depends on the ability of their people to discuss and write about them freely and without fear of punishment-the IAPA organized a conference of distinguished private citizens in Mexico City in March 1994 to forge a document that would set forth the principles for a free press in the Hemisphere. Taking its name from the conference site, the Declaration of Chapultepec was written and adopted. Principles embodied in the Declaration have since been signed and endorsed by many heads of state in the Hemisphere as well as by journalists, social and political leaders, international organizations and thousands of private individuals. In simple terms, the Declaration is based on the concept that "no law or act of goverment may limit freedom of expression or of the press, whatever the medium"
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