World Press Freedom Day 2022 observed on 3rd May
Highlights: 
- World Press Freedom Day is observed globally on 3rd May every year.
- It is also known as World Press Day. The day also pays tribute to journalists who have lost their lives.
- This year’s World Press Freedom Day theme “Journalism under digital siege,” spotlights the multiple ways in which journalism is endangered by surveillance and digitally-mediated attacks on journalists, and the consequences of all this on public trust in digital communications.
- It was in the year 1993 when the United Nations General Assembly declared 3rd May as the world freedom press day.
- This declaration came after a recommendation made in 1991 at the twenty-sixth general conference session of UNESCO.
- The declaration also came as a result of the 1991 Windhoek Declaration, a statement which was produced by African journalists about press freedom, presented at a seminar held by UNESCO, which concluded on 3rd May.
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