62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
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UNITED
STATES I
Resolution of the 62nd General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 – October 3, 2006
WHEREAS
in recent years the IAPA has expressed its concern over a disturbing trend in
U.S. anti-terror policies that limit and, at times, violate well established
press freedoms
WHEREAS
new cases of attacks on press freedom related to U.S. anti-terror policies,
continue to occur
WHEREAS
the IAPA strongly believes in the right of journalists to inform the public
and to protect their confidential sources
WHEREAS
principle 5 of the Declaration of Chapultepec states that “prior censorship,
restrictions on the circulation of the media or dissemination of their reports,
forced publication of information, the imposition of obstacles to the free flow
of news, and restrictions on the activities and movements of journalists directly
contradict freedom of the press”
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IAPA RESOLVES
to reiterate its concern
over the detention without charge of journalists in Iraq.
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