who was presented with UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017 award ?
Options
1) Dawit Isaak
2)Khadija Ismayilova
3) Mazen Darwish
4) Ahmet Şık
answer
1) Dawit Isaak
Other details
Dawit Isaak, Eritrean-Swedish journalist, has been chosen to receive the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organisation or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
The prize, worth US$45,000, is awarded each year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May.
The prize is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
Each year, an independent jury of 14 news professionals selected by the UNESCO Director-General selects a winner from the many nominations submitted by non-governmental organisations working in the field of press freedom, and by the UNESCO Member States
Options
1) Dawit Isaak
2)Khadija Ismayilova
3) Mazen Darwish
4) Ahmet Şık
answer
1) Dawit Isaak
Other details
Dawit Isaak, Eritrean-Swedish journalist, has been chosen to receive the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organisation or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
The prize, worth US$45,000, is awarded each year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May.
The prize is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the editor of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
Each year, an independent jury of 14 news professionals selected by the UNESCO Director-General selects a winner from the many nominations submitted by non-governmental organisations working in the field of press freedom, and by the UNESCO Member States
