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World Press Freedom Day 2007: U.S. Efforts in Support of Journalists Worldwide
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Date: Thursday, 3 May 2007
Time: 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT)
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A free media is one of the pillars of democracy. The State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is committed to supporting and promoting democracy programs throughout the world dealing with press freedom as well as election monitoring, parliamentary development and related issues. DRL also devotes a section of its annual Human Rights Report to press freedom.
Join Jonathan Farrar, principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, for a webchat about the United States' efforts to support a free press worldwide.
Guest Biography: Jonathan D. Farrar assumed the position of principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in November 2005. Farrar’s career includes extensive experience in Latin America, with overseas assignments at the U.S. embassies in Mexico, Belize, Paraguay and Uruguay, and domestic assignments in the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and the Undersecretariat for Global Affairs.
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