Inter American Press Association (IAPA)

Association interaméricaine de la presse
Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP)
Sociedade Interamericana de Imprensa

Contact Details

Main address: Exec Dir: Julio E Muñoz, Jules Dubois Bldg, 1801 SW 3rd Ave, 33129, Miami FL, United States of America, Tel: (1 305) 634 2465, Fax: (1 305) 635 2272, E-mail: jmunoz (at) sipiapa.org , E-mail (2): info (at) sipiapa.org

URL: http://www.sipiapa.org/

http://www.sipiapa.com/

Aims

Protect freedom of the press in the Americas and defend and promote the right of the American peoples to be fully and freely informed through an independent press; foster and protect press freedom by publishing facts of any action or attempt to restrict that freedom in the Western Hemisphere; foster general and specific press interests; promote and maintain the dignity, rights and responsibilities of the profession of journalism; encourage uniform standards of professional and business conduct; promote greater exchange among American peoples in support of basic principles of a free society and individual liberty.

Official Relations

United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)^* (Special); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)^* (Associate Status).

Activities

Maintains: Inter-American Press Association Press Institute^*, which organizes seminars and produces publications; IAPA Scholarship Fund^*, set up 1954. Set up: Office of Certified Circulation (OCC), started 1954, which subsequently became autonomous and was then replaced by national and regional organizations which continue helping to increase advertising income and thus financial independence.

Publications

IAPA News (12 a year) in Spanish, English. Hora de Cierre - print and online (4 a year) in Spanish. Periodic reports on state of the press in each country; proceedings of annual meetings.

Members

Active (newspapers and magazines published 6 or more times a year); Associate; Life, totalling 1,421 individual members, in 35 countries and territories:

• Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda^*, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba (exile)^*, Curaçao^*, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico^*, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).

Institutional Members

The Daily Observer Ltd., St John, Antigua and Barbuda

Ambito Financiero, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Billiken, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bloomberg News, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diario de Cuyo, San Juan, Argentina

Diario de la RerÂblica, San Luis, Argentina

Diario del Viajero, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diario Los Andes, Mendoza, Argentina

Diario Popular, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diario Pregon, San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina

Diario Puntal, Córdoba, Argentina

Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires, Argentina

El Dia - La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

El Diario - Parana, Parana, Entre Rios, Argentina

El Liberal, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

El Litoral, Santa Fé, Argentina

El Tribuno, Salta, Argentina

El Norte.com, San Nicolas, Argentina

Gente, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Grupoclarin.com, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Infobae, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jardin de Genios, Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Capital, ., Rosario, Argentina

La Gaceta, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina

La Mañana de Neuquén, Neuquen, Argentina

La Nación - Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Nueva Provincia, Bahia Blanca, Argentina

La Voz del Interior, Córdoba, Argentina

Lanacion.com.ar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Launion.com.ar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lavozdelinterior.com, Córdoba, Argentina

Losandes.com.ar, Mendoza, Argentina

Oficio Grafico, ., Buenos Aires, Argentina

Olé, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pagina 12, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Papparazzi, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Para Ti, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Perfil, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revista Elle, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revista Enie, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revista Genios, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Revista Noticias, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rio Negro, ., General Roca, Rio Negro, Argentina

Rionegro.com.ar, General Roca, Rio Negro, Argentina

Viva, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bon Dia and Aruba Today, ., Oranjestad, Aruba

Diario Aruba, Aruba, Aruba

Patrick Paskel, Oranjestad, Aruba

The News, Oranjestad, Aruba

The Tribune - Bahamas, ., Nassau, Bahamas

The Nation News, ., Fontabelle, St. Michel, Barbados

Thenation.com, Barbados, Barbados

Teranews N.V., ., Oranjestad, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

The Royal Gazette, Hamilton, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

El Deber, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

El Diario, La Paz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

El Pais - Bolivia, Tarija, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Elpaisonline.com, Tarija, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

La Razón, La Paz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

La-razon.com, La Paz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Los Tiempos, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Mi Súper Diario/ La Maquina de Ideas, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Opinión, Cochabamba, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Unitel, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

A Noticia, ., Joinville, SC, Brazil

A Tarde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

A Tribuna de Santos, Santos, SP, Brazil

Almanaque Abril, Santos, SP, Brazil

An.com.br, Joinville, SC, Brazil

Ana Maria, Joinville, SC, Brazil

Arquitetura and Construcao, ., Joinville, SC, Brazil

Atarde.com.br, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Aventuras Na Historia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bizz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Boa Forma, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bons Fluido, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bons Fluidos, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bravo., Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Capricho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Caras, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Casa Claudia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Claudia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Contigo, ., Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Correio Braziliense, Brasilia, DF, Brazil

Correio Popular, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Cpopular.com.br, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Diario Catarinense, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

Diario da Tarde, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Diario de S. Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Diario de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

Diario do Comércio, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Diario Popular- Curitiba, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Diario Popular - Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande, Brazil

Diario Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

Diario.com.br, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

Diariopopularpr.com.br, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Disney, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Elle, ., Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

... and 1376 more institutional members that are not displayed online (entry download too large).

UNESCO NGO Section Data

Type of Relation with UNESCOAssociate Status

Admission Date1977

Reclassification date1996

Programme sector: EDNo

Programme sector: SCNo

Programme sector: SHSNo

Programme sector: CLTNo

Programme sector: CIIYes

Programme sector: BSPNo

Programme sector: AFRNo

Name and contact details of NGO focal point at UNESCOM. Storti Davide
CI/INF/ICT

History1949 Creation 1977 Category B 1996 Formal consultative relations as a network (149 EX/ONG.2) (149 EX/Dec. 7.3) 2002 Renewal of Formal Consultative Relations (165 EX/ONG.2) (165 EX/Dec. 9.5) 2009 Renewal of formal consultative relations for a new six year period (181 EX/44) (181 EX/Dec.44)

Contribution to UNESCO's programmes 181 EX/ONG.2 (April 2009): IAPA works closely with UNESCO in the promotion and selection of the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano Award. IAPA also works closely with UNESCO on the promotion of 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. IAPA participates significantly in UNESCO main conferences and seminars. On May 2, 2007, IAPA participated in Medellin, Colombia in the celebration of World Press Freedom Day and the awarding of the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on 3 and 4 May. UNESCO’s Director-General and the Colombian Vice-President hosted the celebration. Among the highlights was the unveiling of a bust of Guillermo Cano in Medellin’s Bolívar Park, as well as the posthumous awarding of the UNESCO-Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2007 to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Following the ceremony, the IAPA President delivered one of the keynote addresses at the UNESCO-organized seminar titled “Press Freedom, Safety of Journalists and Impunity”. The IAPA Executive Director and Press Freedom Director participated in two of the panel discussions in this session. IAPA held two hemispheric conferences that featured UNESCO speakers and collaborators. The first, a November 2006 Values in Journalism workshop, began the work that led to a statement of aspirations that defines aspects of the vital role of the press in democratic societies. The second, in July 2007, brought together Supreme Court justices from several countries to discuss manners of applying international human rights standards in cases of crimes against journalists. IAPA regularly organizes forums, conferences and seminars at the country level to discuss local press freedom issues and UNESCO representatives have participated in those events. Evaluation of cooperation by the programme sector: UNESCO has long-term and dynamic relations with IAPA in creating an enabling environment for independent and professional media in the Americas. UNESCO has through the past six years, in cooperation with IAPA, developed policies for programme based media assistance. See UNESCO’s Belgrade, Dakar, Colombo, Medellin and Maputo Declarations. Furthermore, UNESCO has solid working relations with IAPA, which not only serves as professional screener and implementer, but also adviser on professional matters related to the media sector. This ensures continuation and links between different areas of media development such as law, capacity-building of media managers, journalism development and peer network promotion. The cooperation is evaluated as strategic and useful, and it is recommended to be continued and strengthened.

Previous evaluation made by Programme sector concerned 164 EX/ONG/2 (April 2002) : During 1996-2001, the Inter American Press Association has pursued its activities in support of the fundamental freedoms of the press and of expression. In terms of geographical extension of membership, funding or affiliation, there have been no substantial changes during this period. It has regularly kept the Secretariat informed of its activities and joined UNESCO in assisting independent media in conflict and post-conflict areas in 1997, 1998 and 1999. It is an active member of the International Freedom of Expression and Exchange Network (IFEX). Its Declaration of Chapultepec embodying ten fundamental principles for a free press to perform its essential role in a democracy has been endorsed by 22 Heads of State in the Western Hemisphere, as well as by international organizations including UNESCO. IAPA has not contributed to consultations of the Director General on the C/4 and C/5 documents, nor to the sexennial report (1995-2000). However, CI with which it cooperates essentially highly values its professional competence and its monitoring and lobbying capacities, and recommends the renewal of formal consultative relations. Annual World Press Freedom Prize, called UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Prize in honor of the murdered editor of El Espectador, Bogota, Colombia (1997). Signature by UNESCO of the Declaration of Chapultepec, UNESCO (1995, 2000). IAPA participated in the UNESCO General Conference (1997) where was adopted a resolution setting mechanisms for bringing those guilty of crimes against journalists to justice.

Keywords Codes of Ethics,Human rights,Press Freedom,Standards,Latin America

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