Wife of UNESCO Press Freedom Prize Winner: 'The international community knows how to stop the crisis in Syria'

15:14, May 12, 2015

UNESCO awarded this year’s Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize to Mazen Darwish, a Syrian journalist and activist imprisoned since 2012, for his more than ten years of work as president of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression.

His wife, Yara Bader, accepted the prize on his behalf at a ceremony that UNESCO organized in Riga on 3 May to mark World Press Freedom Day.

From May2-4, UNESCO, jointly with the Latvian government, held a series of events in Riga to commemorate World Press Freedom Day and held an international conference entitled “Let Journalism Thrive! Towards Better Reporting, Gender Equality, & Media Safety in the Digital Age”.  Read more... (1113 words)

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