DUSHANBE, May 3, Asia-Plus — Tajik Journalist’s Union is hosting today a roundtable meeting formally titled “Freedom of Speech and Problems of Information Security in Tajikistan”
The event, initiated by Tajik Journalists’ Union and the National Association of Independent Media of Tajikistan (Nansmit), is dedicated to World Press Freedom Day, which is marked on May 3.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the Nansmit monitoring service coordinator Abdufattoh Vohidov said that the Nansmit head Nouriddin Qarshiboyev and Ms. Roza Mavjoudova, a lawyer with the Homa Public Association, will deliver statements at the meeting.
According to him, the book entitled “Rights of Journalists: Questions and Answers” and survey on monitoring observance of freedom of speech in Tajikistan will be presented on sidelines of he meeting.
World Press Freedom Day is a day designated by the United Nations to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and to remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights.
Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, the day is celebrated each year on May 3, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in 1991.
