Freedom of Press
World Press Freedom Committee
The World Press Freedom Committee is an international umbrella organization that includes 45 journalistic groups (print, online and broadcast, labor and management, journalists, editors, publishers and owners on six continents) united in the defense and promotion of press freedom in all media.
The WPFC is unique. It is the only press freedom group with primary focus on:
• Monitoring threats that develop at UNESCO, the UN and other leading intergovernmental organizations.
• Promoting a global common front against restrictions on news through leadership of a worldwide Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, facilitating joint action and administering shared projects.
• Seeking to ensure press freedom is a primary consideration for the Internet and other new media. In the forefront of the struggle for a free press everywhere, WPFC
• Emphasizes monitoring, coordinating and vigorous advocacy of free-press principles.
• Is a watchdog for free news media at UNESCO, the UN, and OSCE, Council of Europe, European Union, UN Commission on Human Rights and other international meetings considering free-press issues?

• WPFC's Charter for a Free Press provides guideposts for press freedom wherever these are needed. It has been widely endorsed and available in a number of languages including Russian, Chinese and Arabic. A similar statement of principles for press freedom on the Internet also outlines conditions for press freedom there.
• A Fund against Censorship which WPFC administers in cooperation with other free-press groups extends self-help legal grants to help local news media around the world fight back when governments move in.
• In the years since its founding, WPFC also has completed nearly 200 training and related projects including publication of journalism manuals in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Russia and Central and Eastern European countries.
World Press Freedom Day
Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news.
Green Press
Media in Pakistan has always been in forefront of highlighting issues of national importance, but its' emphasis has remained on political climate of the country rather than on human environment.
In the 1980s, nobody cared what environment was and if someone tried to write on green issues, editors stuffed their pieces on inside science or agriculture pages. Till 1992 environment was considered something related to atmospheric disturbances.
In 1992 media pundits in Pakistan started trying their hands on new concepts like sustainable development, ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, global warming etc. Green campaign of media spurred from the government, but since it was in the hands of non-specialist bureaucrats, the real message behind environmental awareness campaign could not reach the people.

Amid such a vacuum of information and persuasive communication on environmental issues some young journalists in Islamabad formed an association, Green Press. It launch coincided with the World Environment Day on June 5, 1992. The association aimed at networking of journalists interested in green issues Green reporting has still a long way to, because environment is not a single phenomenon, but a complex mix. It encompasses subjects like population studies and demography, economics, geography,
meteorology, oceanography, agriculture, irrigation, forestation, chemistry, governance and international politics to name a few. Thus a multi-disciplinary approach is required to understand and then disseminate information through mass media. The Green Press has an advantage, as its members have graduated in different disciplines, so through discussions and holding forums, they enhance their understanding on basic green issues. Green Press has completed its eight years. Its preliminary efforts have contributed to environmental awareness in Pakistan. It holds many success stories but still lot more is to be done.


World Press Freedom Day
Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news.
Green Press
Media in Pakistan has always been in forefront of highlighting issues of national importance, but its' emphasis has remained on political climate of the country rather than on human environment. In the 1980s, nobody cared what environment was and if someone tried to write on green issues, editors stuffed their pieces on inside science or agriculture pages. Till 1992 environment was considered something related to atmospheric disturbances. In 1992 media pundits in Pakistan started trying their hands on new concepts like sustainable development, ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, global warming etc. Green campaign of media spurred from the government, but since it was in the hands of non-specialist bureaucrats, the real message behind
environmental awareness campaign could not reach the people. Amid such a vacuum of information and persuasive communication on environmental issues some young journalists in Islamabad formed an association, Green Press.
It launch coincided with the World Environment Day on June 5, 1992. The association aimed at networking of journalists interested in green issues Green reporting has still a long way to, because environment is not a single phenomenon, but a complex mix. It encompasses subjects like population studies and demography, economics, geography, meteorology, oceanography, agriculture, irrigation, forestation, chemistry, governance and international politics to name a few.
Thus a multi-disciplinary approach is required to understand and then disseminate information through mass media. The Green Press has an advantage, as its members have graduated in different disciplines, so through discussions and holding forums, they enhance their understanding on basic green issues.
Green Press has completed its eight years. Its preliminary efforts have contributed to environmental awareness in Pakistan. It holds many success stories but still lot more is to be done.
Affiliations
Green Press is associated with Forum of Environmental Journalists Pakistan and serves as its Islamabad - Rawalpindi Chapter. Internationally it is affiliated with Asia Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) and the Commonwealth Environmental Journalists Association. These national, regional and global linkages enable Green Press to benefit from the experience of environmental journalists in other parts of the world.
Green Press operates as a consciousness-raising group representing the entire spectrum of print and electronic media. Amidst a vacuum of information and persuasive communication on environmental issues a group of young journalists in Islamabad launched Green Press, coinciding with the World Environment Day on June 5, 1992.
The association aims at networking of journalists interested in green issues besides highlighting issues related to human rights and freedom of press.

Green Press is also the first in Pakistan to launch internet radio, providing recorded talk shows on environmental issues, entertainment and programs for all age groups. Green Press started monitoring press freedom violations in 1995 and since then has published a series of five Press Freedom Report: Pakistan. The report is made public every year on May 3, to mark World Press Freedom Day.
In 1997 Green Press was also able to release public service ads for free, democratic and pluralistic press in Pakistan.

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