UNESCO is the only UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press. The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washington, D.C. I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of people suddenly facepalmed and then were silentĪssistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs
