The World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) is a coordination group of national and international news media organizations.
The WPFC set out global press freedom principles in the 1981 Declaration of Talloires (not to be confused with the Talloires Declaration), followed in 1987 by the 10-point Charter for a Free Press. In 1985, it produced a survey of killings, arrests, and harassment of journalists.
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