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Blocking Delivery of Two Major Newspapers in Argentina a Threat to Press Freedom

Mar 29 2011 - 12:00am

The World Press Freedom Committee (www.wpfc.org), an international organization representing 45 press freedom groups from throughout the world, expressed condemnation of the blocking of the Sunday editions of Argentina’s two largest newspapers, Clarín and La Nación, on March 27.

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Viviana Giacaman

Director for Latin America Programs

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Evaluation of 2008-2011 UN Human Rights Council Candidates

On May 21, 2008, the UN General Assembly will elect 15 new Human Rights Council members. Twenty countries are candidates. Freedom House and UN Watch evaluated each candidate’s suitability for election to the Human Rights Council by examining its record of human rights protection at home and its record of human rights promotion at the UN.

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Human Rights Defense, United Nations

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