SIP pede agilização na investigação de assassinato sem punição de jornalista mexicano MIAMI, Florida (March 30)In a new step in its hemisphere-wide campaign to create awareness of the need to solve unpunished murders of journalists the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on Mexicos President Felipe Calderón to act to have the stalled inquiries into the murder of journalist Armando El Choco Rodríguez move ahead.
SIP parabeniza o Congresso brasileiro pela aprovação do projeto de lei para acesso à informação Miami (April 16, 2010).- The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today lauded the approval by Brazils lower house on April 13th of a bill that guarantees citizens their right to information as guaranteed by the countrys 1988 constitution. The bill is now headed to the Senate for final approval.
Leitores de jornais condenam onda de crimes contra jornalistas em Honduras MIAMI, Florida (April 26, 2002)Hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers throughout the Americas were invited today by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) to sign a letter addressed to the president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, asking him to set up legal mechanisms enabling violence unleashed against journalists and the impunity surrounding such offenses to be confronted and ended.
Carta al Presidente de Honduras Dear Mr. President, The international community is disturbed at the wave of violence unleashed against journalists in Honduras without there being to date any investigation to identify those responsible, punish them and thus prevent these offenses from going unpunished.
SIP apresenta à Comissão Interamericana dois casos de assassinatos impunes de jornalistas Miami (May 4, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today a formal charge in two cases of journalists murdered in Brazil in 1995 and 2001 that remain unpunished.
Dois eventos da SIP no Rio de Janeiro discutem a liberdade de imprensa Miami (May 13, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) will hold two events focusing on press freedom next week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil focusing on impunity surrounding crimes against journalists and the application of free speech principles.
Fórum da SIP pede aumento da federalização dos crimes contra jornalistas Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May 19, 2010)Experts in law and human rights agreed at a forum held here yesterday by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) that there is a need to take strong action to investigate and bring to justice those who commit crimes against journalists, suggesting that such actions be made federal offenses.
Encerrado com sucesso o fórum de estudantes realizado pela SIP no Rio de Janeiro Miami (May 20, 2002).Journalism students at the Catholic Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) shared their views with experts convened by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) on the value of press freedom in a democracy, taking as their basis the principles of the IAPA-sponsored Declaration of Chapultepec.
Leitores acreditam que a CIDH vai conseguir que o Brasil esclareça mortes de jornalistas MIAMI, Florida (May 25, 2010)With all legal resources in Brazil exhausted the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), in conjunction with the international community, today expressed hope that with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) acting as intermediary before the South American countrys authorities justice will be done concerning the murder of journalists Nivanildo Barbosa Lima and Jorge Vieira da Costa.
Jornalista colombiana ganha bolsa do The Wall Street Journal/SIP MIAMI, Florida (June 13, 2012)The Board of Governors of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Scholarship Fund today announced that Colombian journalist Rebeca Lucia Galindo has been awarded a scholarship funded by the Dow Jones Foundation for postgraduate studies in the United States. Dow Jones is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.