UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
- UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
The prize, worth US$25,000, is awarded each year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May.
The prize is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the editor of the Colombian newspaper "El Espectador," who was murdered in Bogotá on 17 December 1986. Cano was a vocal critic of the country's powerful drug barons.
Each year, an independent jury of 14 news professionals selected by the UNESCO Director-General selects a winner from the many nominations submitted by non-governmental organizations working in the field of press freedom, and by UNESCO Member States.
Award Winners
* 2008: Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Mexico
* 2007: Anna Politkovskaya, Russia (posthumous award)
* 2006: May Chidiac, Lebanon
* 2005: Cheng Yizhong, China
* 2004: Raúl Rivero, Cuba
* 2003: Amira Hass, Israel
* 2002: Geoffrey Nyarota, Zimbabwe
* 2001: Win Tin, Myanmar
* 2000: Nizar Nayyouf, Syria
* 1999: Jesús Blancornelas, Mexico
* 1998: Christina Anyanwu, Nigeria
* 1997: Gao Yu, China
ee also
* World Press Freedom Day
External links
* [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1738&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Official Website]
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