Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2019 and 2020 the committee on freedom of the press and information, and its subcommittees on impunity, chapultepec and salta, participated in a numerous activities regarding disinformation and pandemic, journalism at risk, murder of journalists, among other related topics. The organization continues raising their voice through press releases about violations of freedoms of expression, information, association, and of the press. One hundred six (106) press releases were distributed to news agencies and news media outlets in the Americas on various press freedom issues. The impunity subcommittee works to prevent and stop acts of violence against journalists in the Americas and crated awareness of the impunity surrounding these acts of violence through advocacy, investigations, missions, trainings and campaigns. In this period, the subcommittee has dealt with 14 of 27 cases that we are following-up at the inter-american commission on human rights (iachr) and one in the inter-american human rights court (ihr court). To ensure effective compliance with these strategies we rely on timely denunciations of murders and other violations; apply constant pressure through the distribution to authorities of hundreds of iapa resolutions in which urgent action is requested. The chapultepec subcommittee's core objectives are to promote freedom of the press and of expression principles, and to promote and protect freedom of expression and the press as basic human rights within a democracy. To accomplish this mission we created chapultepec index project, in collaboration with the venezuelan andrs bello Catholic university (ucab). The chapultepec index is a measurement primarily of legal and judicial matters that affect freedom of the press and freedom of expression. The index is a survey about issues that affect press freedom and the work of the media and journalists in 22 countries of the Americas. The project is sponsor by grupo sura, grupo bolvar and of the bolvar foundation, from colombia, and edward and karen seaton foundation, from usa. The subcommittee salta is the area in charge of the promotion of the declaration of salta on principles of freedom of expression in the digital era, through different activities, among them, the social media contest #expressyourself .the contest lasted four months in order to raise awareness about the rights and duties that users, media, journalists, digital platforms and governments have in the digital age, as stated in the declaration of salta. The digital marketing company dsgn with the support of the company hitsbook produced the campaign in 2020. Iapa created since march 2018 a daily news bulletin with items of press freedom, technology and journalistic industry in Spanish, english and portuguese. Distributed to more than 19,000 contacts. Since february 2019, we also produced, in collaboration with organization editorial mexicana, the bimonthly podcast "journalism under risk", about topic of freedom of the press, expression, impunity, and media industry. Iapa supported more than 10 amicus curiae and / or letters, prepared by the reporters committee on freedom of the press (rcfp), and sent to the judiciary and other us authorities.