The Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, Elena VALENCIANO (S&D, ES), and the Chair of the EP Culture and Education Committee, Silvia COSTA (S&D, IT), stress the link between access to information and fundamental freedoms on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day:
"In today's interconnected world, confronted by increasing number of humanitarian, economic and political crises, free access to information is more important than ever. We are therefore most concerned by the constant erosion of press freedom worldwide....""On behalf of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, I wish to express my concern regarding the findings of the second and final report presented by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) on the disappearance of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa.
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Elena Valenciano, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament, on the attack in Aleppo on the Al Quds hospital, another facility supported by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF):
"I express my strongest condemnation of this attack that has caused significant loss of life among patients and doctors, including children, and one of Aleppo's last paediatricians. These intentional attacks on civilian facilities are blatant violations of international humanitarian law and have a brutal impact on the already meagre living conditions of thousands of people.