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Today, we mark #worldpressfreedomday for the 30th time, with @UNESCO's theme for #WPFD2023 "Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights."
#Freespeech #journosafe #journalismnotacrime
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUinGeorgia/status/1653653669215363072
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#pressfreedom & access to information are critically important. #Media & journalists play an essential role: verify & disseminate facts, create spaces for debate & for the voiceless to be heard.
Protecting #mediafreedom is everyone’s concern, because:⬇️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUinGeorgia/status/1653653672541184002
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➡️Free & pluralistic press🟰resilient democracy
➡️Access to info🟰condition for accomplished democracy
➡️Press freedom🟰media reveals injustices, holds the powerful accountable, fights corruption
➡️Legal threats & abusive litigation against media🟰threat to HR & democracy
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUinGeorgia/status/1653653675045265408
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The right to freedom of expression is enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. #freedomofexpression is a core value of the EU. We supports pluralism, freedom of expression & quality information in the EU 🇪🇺, in Georgia 🇬🇪 & globally.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUinGeorgia/status/1653653677566033923