UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2023

• Eligibility criteria:
  – Prizes may be conferred upon individuals, institutions, other entities or non-governmental organizations. Candidates shall have made a significant contribution to press freedom anywhere in the world representing all types of media including digital media. 
  
• Type of funding: Award
• Target countries: UNESCO Member States
• Application language: English

UNESCO invites Member States to nominate candidates for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2023, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as international and regional professional non-governmental organizations in the field of journalism and press freedom.

This Prize is awarded each year to a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defense and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, particularly if risks were involved.

The UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was established in 1997 by UNESCO’s Executive Board in Memory of Guillermo Cano, a Colombian journalist who died in the exercise of his profession.

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