NOMINATIONS are now open for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
Member States as well as international and regional professional and non-governmental organisations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression may nominate up to three candidates for the Prize.
Created in 1997, the annual UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize will honour a person, organisation or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.
Organiser says, “The Prize was established on the initiative of UNESCO’s Executive Board and is formally conferred by UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May.
“It is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia on 17 December 1986”.
Interested applicants can apply here. Entries close on February 15, 2026.
Blessing Otoibhi is a Multimedia Journalist and Anchor host for the News in 60 seconds at The International Center For Investigative Reporting. You can shoot her a mail via Botoibhi@icirnigeria.org or connect on Twitter @B_otoibhi