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[1] of six 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. The jury remains in charge for a period of three years, renewable once.
The anti-mafia italian journalist Marilù Mastrogiovanni serve as Chair of the jury in 2021.[2] Other members of the Jury are:
- Wendy Funes (Honduras), investigative journalist;
- David Dembele (Mali), Editor-in-chief of the Depêche du Mali/L’Investigateur;
- Hamid Mir (Pakistan), Executive Editor of Geo Television Pakistan;
- Alfred Lela (Albania), Political Analyst on News 24 and Founder and Director of Politiko;
- Zainab Salbi (Iraq), As a journalist, she created and hosted several shows including: #MeToo, Now What? on PBS (2018)
Award Winners
[edit]Year | Recipient | Country |
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1997 | Gao Yu | ![]() |
1998 | Christina Anyanwu | ![]() |
1999 | Jesús Blancornelas | ![]() |
2000 | Nizar Nayyouf | ![]() |
2001 | Win Tin | ![]() |
2002 | Geoffrey Nyarota | ![]() |
2003 | Amira Hass | ![]() |
2004 | Raúl Rivero | ![]() |
2005 | Cheng Yizhong | ![]() |
2006 | May Chidiac | ![]() |
2007 | Anna Politkovskaya | ![]() |
2008 | Lydia Cacho Ribeiro | ![]() |
2009 | Lasantha Wickrematunge | ![]() |
2010 | Mónica González Mujica | ![]() |
2011 | Ahmad Zeidabadi | ![]() |
2012 | Eynulla Fatullayev | ![]() |
2013 | Reeyot Alemu | ![]() |
2014 | Ahmet Şık | ![]() |
2015 | Mazen Darwish | ![]() |
2016 | Khadija Ismayilova | ![]() |
2017 | Dawit Isaak | ![]() ![]() |
2018 | Mahmoud Abu Zeid[4] | ![]() |
2019 | Kyaw Soe Oo & Wa Lone[5] | ![]() |
2020 | Jineth Bedoya Lima | ![]() |
2021 | Maria Ressa[6] | ![]() |
2022 | Belarusian Association of Journalists | ![]() |
2023 | Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi, Narges Mohammadi[7] | ![]() |
2024 | Palestinian journalists covering Gaza[8] | ![]() |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Jury". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ "Two leading women journalists to join 2021 Jury of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize". UNESCO. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ "World Press Freedom Day 3 May in Tunis". Afrique en ligne. 24 April 2012.
- ^ "Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, aka Shawkan, to receive 2018 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize". 23 April 2018.
- ^ "Jailed Reuters reporters, U.S. border photographers win Pulitzer Prizes". Reuters. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "Embattled Philippine journalist wins UN press prize". Yahoo! News. Agence France-Presse. 27 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Three imprisoned Iranian women journalists awarded 2023 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Palestinian journalists covering Gaza awarded 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 May 2024.