Miami (November 6, 2002) During its recent General Assembly in Peru, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) issued 15 resolutions on freedom of the press so that public officials of the governments of the Americas take specific action to improve the situation of press freedom in their countries.
After reviewing for five days violations in nations around the Western Hemisphere, the IAPA Assembly, which took place in Lima on October 25-29, resolved to take direct action on press freedom in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
Among the many sessions of the annual IAPA meeting there were presentations on crimes against journalists and the state of impunity of those murders in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, and Venezuela.
One of the actions taken by the hemispheric organization to be highlighted was one that recommends that the government of Venezuela seek an advisory opinion from the Inter-American Human Rights Court on the draft Content Law and Citizen Participation Act, to determine whether they are compatible with the rules of the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights.
Resolutions on legal issues, violations on the right to public information,
and country-by-country reports on the situation of press freedom examined during
the Assembly, can be found in Spanish and English on the IAPA web site, www.sipiapa.org.
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