{"id":35096,"date":"2024-05-03T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35096"},"modified":"2024-05-03T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:17:11","slug":"31st-world-press-freedom-day-being-observed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/31st-world-press-freedom-day-being-observed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"31st World Press Freedom Day being observed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The 31st World Press Freedom Day is being observed today to create awareness about the importance of press freedom.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2024,\u00a0World Press Freedom Day\u00a0is dedicated to the importance of journalism and freedom of expression in the context of the current global environmental crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"\">The government of Chile and UNESCO will host this year&#8217;s World Press Freedom Day Conference in Santiago, with the theme for 2024 being \u201cA Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/govt-fully-believes-in-freedom-of-expression-independent-media-pm\/\">Govt fully believes in freedom of expression, independent media: PM<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWhen we lose a journalist, we lose our eyes and ears to the outside world. We lose a voice for the voiceless. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">World Press Freedom Day was established to celebrate the value of truth and to protect the people who work courageously to uncover it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This year&#8217;s World Press Freedom Day is being marked today at a particularly difficult time for journalists globally, with Israel\u2019s war on Gaza becoming the deadliest conflict for journalists and media workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The 31st World Press Freedom Day is being observed today to create awareness about the importance of press freedom. In 2024,\u00a0World Press Freedom Day\u00a0is dedicated to the importance of journalism and freedom of expression in the context of the current global environmental crisis. The government of Chile and UNESCO will host this year&#8217;s World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16217,16215,16216],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-press-freedom-day","tag-world-press-freedom-day","tag-world-press-freedom-day-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}