World Press Freedom Day 2019 (3 May) - Message from UN Secretary-General

Video message from H.E. António Guterres , United Nations Secretary General, on World Press Freedom Day 2019.

A free press is essential for peace, justice, sustainable development and human rights.
No democracy is complete without access to transparent and reliable information. It is the cornerstone for building fair and impartial institutions, holding leaders accountable and speaking truth to power.

This is especially true during election seasons -- the focus of this year’s World Press Freedom Day.
Facts, not falsehoods, should guide people as they choose their representatives.

Yet while technology has transformed the ways in which we receive and share information, sometimes it is used to mislead public opinion or to fuel violence and hatred.

Civic space is been shrinking worldwide at an alarming rate.
And with anti-media rhetoric on the rise, so too are violence and harassment against journalists, including women.

I am deeply troubled by the growing number of attacks and the culture of impunity.

According to UNESCO, almost 100 journalists were killed in 2018.
Hundreds are imprisoned.

When media workers are targeted, societies as a whole pay a price.
On World Press Freedom Day, I call on all to defend the rights of journalists, whose efforts help us to build a better world for all.
Thank you.

[Gintoki]

Empty words if they do not stand by wikileaks and assange.

[bigdaddyy]

Where were you guys when Assange was arrested?

[allandavies]

I wonder if Trump and Pompeo will listen to this and bear in mind what was said, when they pursue their assault on Julian Assange.

[saintracheljarodm.holy-kay]

So fundamental true, God bless amen. 🇺🇳

[omideashley]

hello;
Thank you Mr secretary general;
It's true that freedom of the journals space is one of the bases for the modern world; but in my opinion a world's powerful journalist associations need a powerful basics rules for having a powerful monitoring on them too.
Omid from Iran.

[jamesupton]

The free press is ‘cornerstone’ of a Government of the people, by the people, for the people, Also education is teaching how to question & fact check.

[princeamoah]

PLEASE, YOU WENT TO CHINA BUT YOU COULDN'T TALK ABOUT "FREE PRESS" WHEN THE PRESS ASK YOU QUESTIONS. YOU TALKED ABOUT BELT AND ROAD.

[TheTruKman]

Why can't I find the Mosab Yousef UN speech on the UN YouTube page?

[francismausley]

Truth has its enemies..."...it behooves the writers and editors thereof to be sanctified from the prejudice of egotism and desire, and to be adorned with the ornament of equity and justice. They must inquire into matters as fully as possible in order that they may be informed of the real facts, and commit the same to writing.” ~ Baha'u'llah, Baha'i Faith

[lisa]

- Establish peaceful cooperation partnership between countries in the world -  - The world should establish a peaceful cooperation partnership between each continent -  - Conduct a peace federation system on a continent basis around the United Nations - - Conduct peaceful federation system by country centering on the continent of the world -  - The world is represented by the United Nations and the Continental Peace Federation,   * Looking at the prosperous voyages of the world's 7.5 billion people *  Our human beings should never be freed from the manifesto that they should be led from the universe to the warrant of all things and lead to a free and peaceful world by safeguarding the life of mankind as well as the life of mankind by peaceful harmony with Mother Nature.  This is not to think of how our humanity, which should treasure the life of mankind and protect it, should care for the life of mankind more and more carefully, but also the phenomena that are concentrating on how to take the life of more humanity at once  When you look at it, it is truly a shame.  It is indeed a pity that I can not give an answer to how the people of the 7, 5 billion people living in the civilized world of the 21st century are concerned about how to think about this problem, how to watch it, how to worry and how to solve it.  From the point of view that reality is passing today and coming tomorrow, we must all worry about what to do.  We must face the fact that no one in the world anywhere in the world can ever escape from this tremendous sense of responsibility and mission as to how well our human beings on this planet should look after the 7.5 billion precious lives,   I will.  Some of the countries on this planet have the capacity to take away the precious life of mankind in a few times, and some countries are sick and tired of trying to accomplish their ability as soon as possible,   If we try harder, we will be able to secure it, but we will not be able to do this, and the rest of the countries will not be able to get down even from the beginning.  What is the ultimate goal of our humanity?  We have been living together in harmony with nature in peace and harmony, and we have been searching for the life of this universe through the providence of truth. In the life of this universe,   And that humanity among them can not escape from the relationship of absolute exclusion to fulfill its responsibilities as a warrant of all things.  Thus, the world's 7.5 billion people ignore or avoid it, and, unlike its stubborn big will, is trying to destroy the life of the precious life of our human being,   It is necessary to focus on whether it meets reasonable measures as mankind born as a warrant of the grand universe because it lives under the plan.  If so, which country has the right to live and which country does not have the right to live?  Which country should live and which country should die?  A strong nation can live, and a weak nation must die!  South Korea on the Korean Peninsula should live and North Korea should die!  Also, North Korea should live and South Korea should die!  The rich country is to live, and the poor country to die!  Also, people with money will live, and people without money will die!  It is time to think big in various meanings such as.  It is therefore important to realize clearly that the lives of our various forms of our 7.5 billion human beings on this earth are not the share of each individual, but the share of all 7.5 billion people on this planet.  Our 7.5 billion mankind must be sure that we have rented a small boat called the earth ship to the open sea of ​​the great universe, one for each other, for everyone to come yesterday for all, to go today, and to sail tomorrow  It is.  All of you who embarked on this earth!  Our 7.5 billion people aboard the Earth Line of the Great Universe!  Could you throw anybody into that dark blue sea ?!  Our 7.5 billion human beings are to endure each other's troubles for each other and for all of us in any difficulty, and to continue the safe voyage to the end.  It is time for all the leaders of the world, as well as the rest of the world, to throw away all the worn old nets and to raise a new wave of 7.5 billion human beings in the 21st century for a wonderful voyage of the vast ocean of the great universe.  Now all the leaders of the world in the 21st century are the time to unify all around the UN, the leading organization of the world.  Our human race is a family of one-to-one families, which leads to a single root, a family, and a thousand families of children with disabilities.  The warming world of the East. Lee In Seop.

[acelgallander]

Freedom of speech and Press in Kazakhstan and Russia ??
what is happening there with simple citizens when they try to express the truth about corruption in government?? About their freedom of Speech??
Thank You

[acelgallander]

Dear, United Nation and Dear, Sir U.N. Secretary what about human rights freedom of speech and religion on territory of Xinhjian in China ?? most of the people that are in camps in China on this territory are Muslim religion Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz.
Thank You

[davidyechoua]

So...
Babylon or medina (70 nations of Islam)
Holy Bible
Apocalypse of John chapter 17:
Description of "Kaaba"(Babylon)
---Build on desert----Saoudit Arabia
---Between 7 mounts ---Thor, Arafat, Abu Qubeis, Karquaan, ....
---In middle lots waters---Indian océan, Red sea, Oman sea, Death sea, Mediteranean sea...
---10 kings
---Lots nations from différents languages and trubutes
---" Kaaba" significated in Arabian phonetic langage ---prostit••••
Explain all muslims got one-eyed or eternal damnation !!!
Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordania, Lybia, Saoudit Arabia, Oman, Tunisia, Tchad, Algeria, Morocco, Sénégal, Mauritania, Cameroun,
Muslims not names in "Book of Life"...
Fault prophet Mahomet and fault GOD allah or baal sin or !!!
Juxtaposition of "Saints Writes" (Holy Bible)
--Book of Esaie chapter 14:22-26
--Book pf Jeremiah chapter 51:13-58
--Book of Enoch chapter 89 and 90
--Book of Daniel chapter 7
....
Programme of 👑WHITE THRONE LORD GOD ETERNAL FATHER KING👑...

[whitneyhill]

You're ignoring the genocide in Ambazonia. Have you been bribed by the dictator, Paul Biya of Cameroon? He gave you an invaluable statue when you visited him in his country and you made no comments about his ongoing atrocities in Ambazonia. Did he give you money to buy your silence? I suggest that this secretary general could be investigated for corruption.