Human Rights

World Press Freedom Day: The Perverse Power of Silence

By Anabel Hernández | May 2, 2012
"Silence kills democracy, but a free press talks," is a phrase associated with World Press Freedom Day. Currently, during this dramatic period in Mexico's history, silence is killing men, women and children, ordinary members of civil society, it is killing human rights defenders, it is killing government officials, and it is killing journalists.


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