World Press Freedom Day 2024 - 2 -4 May events

More than 40 side events organized by partners will take place on May 2-4. Join compelling panels delving into the growing threats faced by reporters uncovering environmental crimes. Engage with leading investigative journalists, reporters, photojournalists, press freedom and legal experts and more. Join the film screenings and the interactive sessions prepared for you. 

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• 9:00 - 12:45 - The challenges of artistic freedom and creativity in a context of environmental crisis and artificial intelligence. Organized by UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile | Centro de Creación y Residencia Artística NAVE
• 11:00 - 12:30 - Launch of OECD Report “Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity”. Organized by OECD | Centro Cultural La Moneda
• 14:00 – 17:30 -  Environmental crisis: the role of the judicial system to ensure the safety of the critical voice. Organized by UNESCO | Supreme Court of Chile

Venue: Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral

9:00 - 10:00

• Profiling and surveillance: a renewed challenge to freedom of expression for the use of new technologies. Organized by Media Defence | Room A2

• Rowing in the Same Direction:  Alignment Between Environmental Champions in Government, Media and Civil Society. Organized by the World Bank | Room C2

   

9:00 - 10:30

• The Online Threats to Freedom of Expression and Climate Communication in Latin America and Beyond. Organized by IPANDETEC, Access Now, Global Witness | Room C1

9:00 - 11:00

• Investigating Environmental Crimes: Can You Cover Coal Mining or Water Scarcity and Stay Alive? Organized by JournalismFund Europe, Justice for Journalists | Room A1
• Percepción de los periodistas sobre la situación de la libertad de expresión y de prensa en Chile. Organized by Colegio de Periodistas de Chile y Universidad de los Andes  | Room N2

9:00 - 13:30

• GFMD Latin America & Caribbean Summit: Fostering Trust and Collaboration for Journalism Sustainability and Safety. Organized by Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD),Centre for International Media Assistance (CIMA),Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) Media Development Working Group, UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) |  BiblioGAM

10:00 - 11:00

• Turning justice against freedom of expression: how to tackle the increasing use of SLAPPs to silence journalists and others investigating and reporting on the current environmental crisis. Organized by OHCHR |  Room A2
• Las deudas de la democracia con la libertad de expresión en Chile: propuestas de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Organized by Coalición por el Fortalecimiento de la Libertad de Expresión en Chile |  Room C2

10:30 - 12:30

• Sustentabilidad de los Medios de Comunicación y su papel en la defensa de la Libertad de Prensa y el Periodismo ante la Crisis Ambiental. Organized by Asociación Internacional de Radiodifusión (AIR) |  Room C1

11:00 – 12:00

• Disarming Disinformation: How leading international editors are responding to information pollution in a pivotal year for democracy and the planet. Organized by International Center for Journalists |  Room A1
• Shaping a Positive and Inclusive Vision for the Online Information Ecosystem. Organized by Freedom Online Coalition  |  Room A2
• Protección de periodistas y personas trabajadoras de las comunicaciones: estrategias para avanzar hacia mecanismos de seguridad para la labor informative. Organized by Colegio de Periodistas de Chile  |  Room N2

11:00 – 12:30

• Disinformation and other risks of covering environmental crimes in the Amazon. Organized by CPJ, APC, Intervozes |  Room C2

12:30 – 14:00

• Defending the Critical Role of Journalists, Scientists and Artists in Times of Environmental Crisis: The UN and Access to Information. Organized by Permanent Delegation of Denmark to UNESCO |  Room A1

12:00 – 13:30

• New data and latest trends in attacks against journalists covering the environment. Organized by UNESCO |  Room A2
• Iniciativa latinoamericana "Más poder a las personas. Menos poder de las grandes plataformas digitales". Organized by OBSERVACOM |  Room N2

12:30 – 13:30

• ¿Qué pasa en las salas de prensa y redacciones? Estrategias contra el sexismo en los medios. Organized by Red de Periodistas y Comunicadoras Feministas de Chile |  Room C2

• Freedom of speech and MIL. Intercultural experiences from Latin America. Organized by MIL Alliance |  Room C1

   

13:30 – 14:30 [ LUNCH TIME]  Film screenings by El Pais | Room A2

15:00 – 16:00

• Driving climate awareness and literacy on social media: exploring the role of digital content creators and platforms to address the climate crisis. Organized by UNESCO |  Room A1

14:30 – 15:30

• Beyond borders: environmental journalism as part of bigger picture. Organized by Free Press Unlimited |  Room A2
• Interlinkages between media freedom, democracy, and security – in a climate of crisis. Organized by OSCE |  Room C1
• "Mucho Ruido y Pocas Nueces" Estrategias y soluciones para comunicar la crisis climática y la sostenibilidad: un enfoque científico, comunitario y juvenil.  Organized by IPS Academy Association - Citizens' Platform on Climate Change and a Sustainable World program |  Room N2

14:30 – 16:00

• New narratives to save the planet: gender-sensitive journalism meets environmental reporting. Organized by DW Akademie, Alharaca |  Room C2
• Ensuring Rights-Respecting Governance of Digital Platforms: Multi Stakeholder Perspectives in the Latin American context and the role of UNESCO Guidelines. Organized by Derechos Digitales |  BiblioGAM

15:30 – 16:30

• Rewriting climate change narratives: artistic approaches to inclusive storytelling. Organized by Media Diversity Institute |  Room A2
• Media Resilience: Navigating Information Rights and Journalist Safety in Latin American Environmental Reporting. Organized by OHCHR |  Room C1

15:30  - 17:00

• Survival Strategies: How Exile Media Adapt to New Realities. Organized by The Center for International Media Assistance, Internews, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Thomson Reuters Foundation  |  Room N2

16:00 – 17:00

• Environmental and climate journalists under fire: Strategies to promote free and safe news coverage of the global environmental crisis. Organized by International Press Institute (IPI), Pullitzer Center, Internews Earth Journalism Network |  Room A1

16:00 -17:30

• The Media Viability Manifesto: A Common Strategy for Joint Action. Organized by DW Akademie and UNESCO IPDC as representatives of the Media Viability Manifesto initiative. |  Room C2
• What does journalism need to help save the Amazon? Organized by Special Rapporteur of Freedom of Expression - Inter-american Human Rights Court and FLIP | BiblioGAM

16:30 – 17:30

• The gender dimensions of disinformation - Freedom of expression and gender justice. Organized by Association for Progressive Communications (APC), United Nations Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Free Press Unlimited |  Room A2
• Photojournalism: The challenges and threats to journalistic coverage in the Amazon rainforest. Organized by Fundacion Vista and UNESCO |  Room C1

17:00 – 18:00

• Mujeres e infancias indígenas, rurales, campesinas frente a la violencia en contextos de defensa ambiental, del territorio, y crisis climática en América Latina. Organized by Red Internacional de Periodistas con Visión de Género (RIPVG) |  Room N2

17:00 – 18:15

• International Cooperation for the Pursuit of Innovative Solutions for the Protection of Environmental Journalists and Communicators. Organized by ARTICLE 19 Mexico, ARTICLE 19 Brazil , FOPEA  |  Room A1

17:30 – 19:00

• Case studies of action from the Media Freedom Coalition: supporting journalists at risk through safe refuge and coordinated advocacy. Organized by Media Freedom Coalition |  Room A2
• A workshop on Youth Voices in the Face of Environmental and Information Pollution in Latin America and the Caribbean. Organized by University of Southern California, IREX and Ojo Publico |  Room C2
• Safety of journalists in Latin America: Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Organized by SOCOLAC |  Room C1
• Conversatorio sobre Desinformación y Personas LGBTIQA+. Organized by Observatorio de Participación Ciudadana y No Discriminación del Ministerio Secretaría General de Gobierno de Chile | BiblioGAM

18:00 – 19:00

• Uncovering Environmental Crimes in Tropical Ecosystems: Investigative Journalism and Press Freedom in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Organized by Internews |  Room N2

18:15 – 19:00

• Attacks against journalists during full-scale invasion. Organized by The Reckoning Project, Public Interest Journalism Lab |  Room A1