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Freedom of the Press 2016: Vanuatu
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Freedom of the Press 2015: Vanuatu
Ranked 41st in annual global media freedom report
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Freedom of the Press 2013: Vanuatu
Ranked 45th in annual global media freedom report
PINA said that VBTC is largely a publicly funded national broadcaster and
the duty of the organisation and its staff is to fully and impartially
inform all the people of Vanuatu. PINA added that VBTC is not there to serve
the personal interests of whichever politicians happen to be in power. PINA
further stated that media freedom in Vanuatu had until recently advanced a
long way from the times when there was outrageous political interference in
the running of VBTC. All those responsible for this improvement deserve
congratulations, it said. PINA appealed to everyone in Vanuatu to "ensure
that there was now no return to the bad days of old."
PINA congratulated the members of Pres Klab blong Vanuatu and others in the
Vanuatu news media for uniting in defending media freedom and the right of
the Vanuatu people to freedom of information and expression. PINA said that
anyone tempted to interfere with media freedom should remember that Article
19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: "Everyone has the
right to freedom of information and expression; this right includes freedom
to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television Corporation (VBTC) operates Vanuatu's
only radio and TV stations. They broadcast in the country's three main
languages, Bislama, English, and French. It also publishes one of the
country's three main newspapers, the trilingual "Vanuatu Weekly".
Ranked 41st in annual global media freedom report
Ranked 45th in annual global media freedom report
members working in this region
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SOUTH ASIA PRESS FREEDOM REPORT 2018-2019
Journalism in South Asia is far from an easy profession, as the 12th annual review of journalism in the region "The Campaign for Justice: Press Freedom in South Asia 2013-14" portrays. But this year's report also tells the story of the courage of South Asia's journalists to defend press freedom and to ensure citizens' right to information and freedom of expression in the face of increasing challenges to the profession and personal safety.
The report is the first created by the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) looking specifically at the experience of women journalists in the South Asia sub-region