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New York City will be the venue of multiple events dedicated to press freedom from 1 - 4 May, 2023. The events are organized by the World Press Freedom's community including civil society organizations, universities, media freedom networks and other New York-based and international organizations. 

If you are  organizing an event in line with the theme of the Day,  fill in the in order to feature it in the list below. For more information, contact: wpfd@unesco.org

The events of 1,3 and 4 May are organized by partners independently from UNESCO. The ideas and opinions expressed in the partners’ events are those of the partners and their participants; they are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization.

• 09:00-10:45

Media Freedom Coalition Strategy Workshop (closed door)

Organized by: Media Freedom Coalition | Location: Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations

• 10:00-13:00

Organized by:  Columbia GFoE, University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 11:30-13:00 (by invitation only)

Beyond the Crisis: Embedding Safe Refuge for Journalists at Risk (by invitation only)

Organized by: The Government of Estonia, The High-Level Legal Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom and CPJ | Location: Headquarters of the United Nations

• 12:00-15:00

Executive Lunch (by invitation only)

Organized by: Association of Foreign Correspondents 

• 14:00-15:30

Organized by:  Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, and Thomson Reuters Foundation | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

Media Freedom Coalition Annual event 2023 (closed door)

• 14:00-15:30

Armchair discussion on Countering Global Threats to Media Freedom & the 2023 UK-Canada Media Freedom Award Presentation Ceremony



Organized by: Media Freedom Coalition | Location: Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations

• 16:15 – 17:30

The Media Freedom Coalition’s Year in Review: how government and embassies have been promoting media freedom – and what they learned 

Organized by:  Media Freedom Coalition | Location: Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations

• 16:00-18:00

Organized by: Columbia GFoE, UNESCO, SOCOLAC (The Correspondents’ Society in Latin America and the Caribbean) | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 16:30-18:00

Organized by: UN Women, UNFPA and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)  | Location: UNFPA (605 Third Avenue New York) 

• 18:00-20:00

Organized by: Pen America, AP, the Roosevelt House Human Rights Programme | Location: Roosevelt House

• 9:00-12:00  

Organized by: Columbia GFoE and UNESCO | Location: Satow Room, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

• 9:00-12:00  

Reporters Shield – Launches on World Press Freedom Day | Location: Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, New York City Bar Association, Meeting Hall, 2nd Floor, 42 West 44th Street, New York. NY 10036

Organized by: Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, Reporters Shield, Organized Crime and Reporting Project (OCCPR)

• 9:00-14:00  

The World Press Freedom Index 

Organized by: RSF, The Press Freedom Partnership includes the Committee to Protect Journalists, International Press Institute, International Women’s Media Foundation, James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, National Press Club, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, World Association of News Publishers and the newly launched Center for Media Integrity of the Americas | Location: Washington D.C. | Watch Live: wapo.st/wpfdmay2023 

• 9:30-11:00

Organized by: the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information)  | Location: Vance Center, New York Bar Association (42 West 44th Street New York) 

• 10:00-12:00

 Organized by: Access Now, Amnesty International, PEN America, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia | Location: Church Center 777 UN Plaza

• 10:00-11:00

Organized by: Committee to Protect Journalists in collaboration with LNJAR, Thomson Reuters Foundation and ICFJ | Location: CPJ’s headquarters—the Knight Foundation Press Freedom Center

• 10:00-11:30

Organized by: International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), Permanent Delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, Permanent Delegation of Sweden to the United Nations | Location: Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations. To register, fill in .

• 10:45 - 11:55

Organized by:  Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom | Location: Satow Room, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

 

• 11:30 - 12:45

Women journalists: How their resilience can influence the design of public policies around the world

Organized by: Article 19 | Location:  Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 320 E 43rd St, Nueva York, NY 10017

*In Spanish



 

• 11:30 - 12:30

Closed Roundtable: Legal Minds at Work: Legal counsel at news orgs work on solutions

Organized by: Associated Press 

• 11:30-13:00

Organized by: OSCE RFoM and UNESCO  | Location: Vance Center, New York City Bar Association Building

• 12:10-13:30

Organized by:  Columbia GFoE, Meta Oversight Board and PEN America | Location: Satow Room, Lerner Hall, Columbia University

• 13:30 - 14:45

Violence against the press: When illegal surveillance is more beneficial for the State than to protect human rights

Organized by: ARTICLE 19 | Location:  New York City Bahá’í Center

*In Spanish

• 13:30 - 15:00

Organized by:  Columbia GFoE, UNESCO, OBSERVACOM | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 14:00-15:00

Who does what for children

Organized by: Child Press 

• 13:30 - 14:30

Organized by: the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, in partnership with North Macedonia as the 2023 OSCE Chairpersonship in Office, | Location: United Nations Headquarters (405 East 42nd Street, New York)

• 14:30 - 15:00

Roundtable on access to data, safety of journalists and media viability (by invitation only)

Organized by: UNESCO, the Global Network Initiative, the Action Coalition for Meaningful Transparency, the Global Forum for Media Development, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN, and Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media. For more information, contact: ipdc.secretariat@unesco.org

• 13:30 - 14:45

Surveillance against the press

Organized by: Article 19, NY Times El Faro, FLIP | Location: Baha’i Center

• 15:15 - 4:45

Organized by:  Columbia GFoE, UNESCO | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 15:30-17:30

Organized by: Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA), BBC Media Action, Center for Media Assistance (CIMA), Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Samir Kassir Foundation, and the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents USA (AFPC-USA). | Location: WeWork 368 9th Ave New York, NY 10001 United States

• 15:30-16:15

World Press Freedom Day | A Conversation

Organized by: Wall Street Journal | Location: This panel will be streamed on the homepage

• 16:00-18:00

The Killing of Shireen

Organized by: Columbia School of Journalism, Al Jazeera Faultlines, UN Department of Global Communications | Location: Headquarters of the United Nations

• 17:00-18:30

Content Moderation, Regional Dialogue

Organized by: UNESCO Social Media 4 Peace and Columbia Global Freedom of Expression  | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 9:00-11:00

Philanthropy’s role in Promoting Press Freedom (by invitation only)

Organized by: UNESCO | Location: Ford Foundation Offices

• 9:30-11:00

Organized by: Fondation Hirondelle, International Peace Institute, UNESCO

• 10:00-11:30

Organized by: Columbia GFoE, Media Defence | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

 

• 10:00-11:30

Latin America: Violence, Repression, and the Resilience of the Press Voces del Sur Shadow Report, 2022

Organized by: Voces del Sur (VDS) | Location: Open Society Foundation, 224 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019

• 12:00-13:20

Organized by: Columbia GFoE, UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression at Universidad de Los Andes, Asomedios, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 14:00 - 15:20

Organized by: Columbia GFoE, ARTICLE 19, UNESCO | Location: MLK Conference Room 527, Columbia University

• 16:00 - 18:00

Organized by: University for Peace with co-sponsorship from the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations | Location: UNHQ Conference Room 8

5 May

• 10:30 - 11:30

Organized by: International Bar Association | Location: Covington & Burling LLP, in the New York Times building. Read the