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Letter: Turkish independent media threatened over investigative reporting

H. E. Necmettin Erbakan Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 21 November 1996 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 90 countries, is deeply concerned about certain recent threats to press freedom in Turkey. […]

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Letter: IPI concerned about legal action taken by Singapore against an American professor and the IHT

His Excellency Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong Office of the Prime Minister Istana Annexe, Istana Singapore Vienna, 22 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the legal action taken by the Republic of Singapore against an American professor and the International Herald Tribune for an opinion piece that criticised […]

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Letter: IPI protests at treatment of Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka

His Excellency General Sani Abacha President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces State House Abuja Nigeria Vienna, 11 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), protests most strongly against the recent seizure of Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka’s United Nations passport and the travel ban imposed on him. The IPI Weekly Digest Subscribe […]

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Letter: IPI protests attempt to prohibit members of Alliance of Independent Journalists from covering the APEC summit in Jakarta

His Excellency General Suharto President Office of the President Jakarta Indonesia Vienna, 17 October 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly protests the attempt to prohibit members of the recently-formed Alliance of Independent Journalists from covering the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit in Jakarta. The IPI Weekly Digest Subscribe for press freedom […]

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Letter: IPI concerned about UN Secretariat’s decision to reject the application of four Taiwanese correspondents to cover the UN GA

His Excellency Boutros Boutros-Ghali Secretary General United Nations New York, NY USA Vienna, 11 October 1994 The International Press Institute (IPI), representing editors and leading journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in over 80 countries, is most concerned about the United Nations Secretariat’s recent decision to reject the application of four Taiwanese […]

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IPI concerned about the revocation by the United Nations Secretariat of the right of Taiwan’s Central News Agency’s NY correspondent to cover the UN

His Excellency Boutros Boutros-Ghali Secretary General United Nations New York, NY USA Vienna, 4 October 1993 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), representing over 2000 journalists and editors from leading newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organizations and news agencies in 68 countries, is most concerned about the revocation by the United Nations Secretariat of the right […]

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The Vienna Declaration on Public Broadcasting

  The International Press Institute, at its European Media Symposium “From State-Controlled Broadcasting to Public Broadcasting”, held in Vienna, Austria, 22-24 September 1993, Declares its unconditional support for the development of editorially independent public service broadcasting to replace the state-controlled broadcasting structures, which continue to exist in Eastern Europe and therefore, Recalling the Universal Declaration […]

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Recommendations: Press Freedom and Media Independence in Egypt

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