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Sunday, May 3 2009
Freedom to write - Nicholas
On 3 May, 1991, a group of African journalists at a UNESCO conference in Namibia issued what has come to be called the Windhoek Declaration on press freedom. "The establishment, maintenance, and fostering of an independent, pluralistic and free press," it...

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