The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay and the United Kingdom’s Minister for the Commonwealth, the UN and South Asia, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to scale up engagement promoting safety of journalists and freedom of the press. This agreement will reinforce UNESCO’s ongoing cooperation with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the framework of the recently-launched Global Campaign for Media Freedom. “Today, the promotion of press freedom is a flagship of UNESCO’s action, and I am happy the UK is renewing its…
Read MoreUNESCO and the United Kingdom scale up efforts to promote media freedom
