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🔴During #G7Summit, @EmmanuelMacron announces “Unanimous” G7 support for RSF’s #InformationDemocracy Initiative.
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The leaders of the G7 nations discussed the “Partnership on Information and Democracy” at the #G7summit. The result of the #InformationDemocracy Initiative, launched by RSF, is due to be signed by around 20 countries during the next @UN General Assembly in September.

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https://twitter.com/RSF_inter/status/1148902310233460737?s=20

The #InformationDemocracy Commission consisting of 25 prominent figures from 18 countries, including Nobel laureates, renowned journalists, new technology specialists, jurists and former leaders of international organizations. 1/3
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The #InformationDemocracy Commission,co-chaired by RSF’s @cdeloire and the Nobel peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, issued an International Declaration on Information and Democracy on 5 November 2018.
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This declaration triggered an international political process leading to the adoption of the intergovernmental partnership, to be signed at the next @UN General Assembly. 3/3 Read more 👇
rsf.org/en/declaration #InformationDemocracy

What is #InformationDemocracy all about?
Protecting, along digital disruptions, the core-values of a free, independent, pluralistic and reliable news. Read more 👇
rsf.org/en/declaration

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We are delighted that the initiative we launched less than a year ago has been presented to the leaders attending the #G7Summit in Biarritz.

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We know that not all of the world’s leaders share this ideal, but that’s an additional reason for promoting this initiative internationally, an initiative that will soon make it possible to implement concrete guarantees.
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