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FORUM AT OAS TO ADDRESS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN THE AMERICAS

  May 17, 2006



“Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century in the Americas” will be the topic of a panel discussion on Friday, May 19, at the Organization of American States (OAS). The forum is part of The Americas Project 2006, a joint initiative with Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

The panelists are Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); Diana M. Daniels, Vice President of the Washington Post Company and President of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA); and Pablo Bachelet, Washington correspondent for the Miami Herald. Maria E. Levens, Director of the OAS Human Development Fund Committee, will moderate the forum, which includes a question-and-answer session.

The annual Americas Project, which began in 1997, is part of the institute’s effort to increase awareness of Latin American issues. It provides a leadership forum for emerging economic, political, and cultural pacesetters from the Western Hemisphere to engage in dialogue on topics of importance to the hemisphere.


WHAT: Panel Discussion on Freedom of Expression in the Americas

WHEN: Friday, May 19

TIME: 3:00 p.m. (EDT)

VENUE: OAS Hall of the Americas
17th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20006

Reference: AVI-061/06