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Application Deadline: 15 February 2025.
Applications are now open for the 2025 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Created in 1997, the annual UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 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, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
It is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia on 17 December 1986.
UNESCO is now receiving nominations for the 2025 edition of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Member States as well as international and regional professional and nonÂgovernmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression may nominate up to three candidates for the Prize.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize