WAN-IFRA Press Freedom Day campaign

World Press Freedom Day will be commemorated on Monday, 3 May 2010, by press organisations worldwide.

The shadows of Sri Lankan media activists fall on the street during a demonstration against the continued harassment of journalists. The protest also highlighted the disappearance of web journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda whose whereabouts are unknown since 24 January. AFP photo/Lakruwan Wanniarachchl

Members of a social organisation lie beneath the Angel de la Independencia Monument, to protest against drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez. AFP photo/Alfredo Estrella

Nude members of a university fraternity make their way through a crowd of students during the traditional 'Oblation Run' at the University of the Philippines campus to protest against the recent massacre of journalists in the southern part of the country. AFP photo/Jay Directo

Nepalese policemen tussle with journalists during a protest outside a government administration building in Kathmandu where media representatives demanded an increase in security after a well-known newspaper publisher was shot dead in the south of the country. AFP photo/Prakash Mathema

Aboubakr Jamai, chief editor of Moroccan weekly magazine, gives a press conference in Casablanca as he announces his voluntary exile in protest of the authorities' decision to close down his publication for fault of payment of important debts. AFP photo/Abdelhak Senna

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has made available a package of various materials available free of charge for publications focusing on the theme, "Journalists in Exile". WAN-IFRA has made available essays, opinion pieces, interviews, infographics, editorial cartoons, photographs, advertisements and more for publication, available in English, French, Spanish, German and Russian, on or around 3 May, and has added protest letters that readers can send to governments in countries where intimidation and attacks on journalists are widespread.

To access the World Press Freedom Day materials, go to www.worldpressfreedomday.org.