62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
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UNITED
STATES II
Resolution of the 62nd General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 – October 3, 2006
WHEREAS
some judges in the United States, without acceptable justification, continue
to order reporters to jail for not revealing their sources
WHEREAS
principle 3 of the Declaration of Chapultepec says “the authorities must
be compelled by law to make available in a timely and reasonable manner the
information generated by the public sector. No journalist may be forced to reveal
his or her sources of information”
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE IAPA RESOLVES
to demand that the U.S.
judiciary respect the role of a free and uninhibited press in democracy.
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