UNESCO's regret In a statement announcing Nicaragua's decision to leave, Azoulay said “UNESCO is fully within its mandate when it defends freedom of expression and press freedom around the world.” ...

The Religious Freedom Institute announced in a statement on Friday that it was planning to posthumously award Starr with its 2025 Defender of Religious Freedom Award at an award ceremony and ...

(CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday while receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award that January 6, 2021, “became a triumph of freedom” because Congress ...

UNESCO's regret In a statement announcing Nicaragua's decision to leave, Azoulay said “UNESCO is fully within its mandate when it defends freedom of expression and press freedom around the world.” ...

UNESCO said that “since 2021, following the imprisonment and expulsion of its leaders from the country as well as the confiscation of its assets, La Prensa has continued to inform the Nicaraguan ...

Here’s a look at the dispute: UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano Prize UNESCO member states created the World Press Freedom Prize in 1997. The only U.N. prize awarded to journalists, it is named after ...

Nicaragua is quitting a UN agency over a press freedom award. Here’s a look at the issue by: Associated Press Posted: May 4, 2025 / 03:17 PM EDT Updated: May 4, 2025 / 03:20 PM EDT ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO because it awarded a prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa. UNESCO’s director general ...