They promote a universal declaration to protect information in democracy

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After its drafting, the text will be presented on November 11 to the 80 heads of State and Government who will meet in Paris at the Forum for Peace.

 

25 eminent personalities from 18 countries have launched a commission to create a universal declaration on information and democracy to face constant attacks on press freedom, the proliferation of false news or the new context created by social networks.

Seventy years after the universal declaration of human rights, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has assembled a committee chaired by the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, and composed of other Nobel laureates such as the Spanish-Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the American Joseph Stiglitz or the Indian Amartya Sen.

Along with them, journalists like the American Ann Marie Lipinski, the British Aidan White or the Turkish Can Dundar and researchers like Francis Fukuyama or the South African Navi Pillay will work to write that statement.

"We are in a critical situation and we need concrete tools to defend ourselves," said Ebadi, in Paris, during the presentation of the commission that held its first meeting.

The objective is that within two months they have an advanced work that can be presented on November 11 to the 80 heads of State and Government who will meet in Paris at the Forum for Peace convened by French President Emmanuel Macron, on the occasion of the centenary of the end of the First World War.

"We live in a jungle of information in which only the laws of the jungle govern," Deloire said.