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PROGRAMME
“Freedom of Expression: Early New
Millennium Challenges”
2-3 May 2003
Jamaica International Conference Centre,
Kingston
Languages: English, French and Spanish
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9h00-10h00: |
Opening Ceremony |
| Welcome
Remarks |
Hon. Maxine
Henry-Wilson Chairperson, UNESCO National Commission of Jamaica Minister
of Education, Youth and Culture |
| Keynote
Address: |
Koïchiro
Matsuura Director-General of UNESCO |
| Official
Opening: |
Most.
Honourable Percival J. Patterson Prime Minister of Jamaica |
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Cultural presentation |
| Introductory
Remarks |
James Ottaway
Jr., Chairperson of the World Press Freedom Committee |
| 10h00: |
Official
opening of the multimedia exhibition |
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10h30-13h00:
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Plenary Session 1: “Unpunished Crimes
against Journalists: A Strategy for Reducing Impunity” |
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Moderator:
Leslie Pierre, Managing Director, Grenada Voice
Rapporteur: Owais Aslam Ali,
Secretary General, Pakistan Press Foundation
Global overview:
Joel Simon, Acting Director, Committee
to Protect Journalists: Worldwide review of the state of impunity
Julio Muñoz, Secretary-General, IAPA:
Trends in the Americas and measures to be established to guarantee press
freedom
Pierre Lemoine, Reporters sans
Frontières: International mechanisms against the culture of impunity
Case studies:
Brazil: Jaime Sirotsky, Chairman
of the Board, Rede Brazil Sul
Iran: Isobel Harry, Executive
Director, Pen Canada, Global Campaign on Impunity: a case study on
Nasser Zarafshan
Nepal: Kunda Dixit, Editor of
Nepali Times
Rwanda: Valérie Gatabazi,
President, Association Rwandaise des Femmes Journalistes
The Caribbean: Elizabeth
Solomon, Human Rights Journalists, Right to Rights, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
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13h00-14h00: |
Lunch |
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14h00-16h30: |
Plenary Session 2: “Safety of Journalists”
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Moderator:
Souleymane Diallo, Director, Lynx and La Lance, Guinea
Rapporteur and global overview:
Rodney Pinder, International Press Institute
Case studies:
Afghanistan: Mr Mubaraz, Deputy
Minister of Ministry of Information and Culture , Kabul
Basque Country of Spain: Carmen
Gurruchaga Basurto, Director of Primer Café Antena 3, Madrid
The Caribbean: Debbie Ransome,
Editorial Liaison Officer of the BBC World Service Property Steering
Group.London
Israel: Amira Hass, Senior
Correspondent, Ha’aretz
Colombia: Marta Ruiz, Director,
Proyecto Antonio Nariño
Zimbabwe: Reyhana Masters-Smith,
Chairperson of Media Institute of Southern Africa
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18h00- 20h00: |
World Press Freedom Day 2003
On the Occasion of the Official
Ceremony and Awarding of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom
Prize
Kings’House Residence of the
Governor General of Jamaica Kingston |
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Broadcast Moderator: |
Eminent
journalist |
| 18h00
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Arrival of
Invited Guests at Kings’ House |
| 18h10
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Arrival of
H.E The Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke, Governor General of Jamaica
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| 18h15 |
National
Anthem |
| 18h20 |
Welcome
Address by Hon. Maxine Henry-Wilson, Chairperson of UNESCO National
Commission of Jamaica |
| 18h25 |
Remarks by
Oliver J. Clarke, President of the Jury |
| 18h30 |
Remarks by
Ana Maria Busquets de Cano, President of the Cano Foundation
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| 18h40 |
Remarks and
awarding of the UNESCO/Guillermo CANO World Press Freedom Prize by
Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO
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Statement by Amira Hass, Laureate of
the 2003 UNESCO/Guillermo CANO World Press Freedom Prize |
| 19h00 |
Address by
H.E The Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke , Governor General of Jamaica
End of the official ceremony,
followed by a cocktail |
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