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Montréal, 5 May, 2008. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters saluted as a valuable contribution to the recognition of the community sector worldwide by reluctant governments, the adoption of the "Maputo Declaration: Fostering Freedom of Expression Access to Information and Empowerment of People".

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Mexico City, April 25, 2008 — Mexico has become the most dangerous country for journalists in the Americas. Because of this concern, from April 20 to 25, 2008, an international mission of 11 organisations for freedom of expression and the press visited Mexico to assess the situation of freedom of expression in the following three areas: impunity, safety & protection, and self-censorship. In the last eight years, at least 24 journalists and media workers have been killed, eight have disappeared and dozens have been threatened or attacked in direct reprisal for their work. The majority of these cases continue to be met with impunity, a situation that has led to a general state of self-censorship.

Mexico April 8, 2008, Two Journalists of the Community Radio La Voz que Rompe el Silencio in the neibourghood of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca (southest of Mexico), Felicitas Martínez Sánchez, 21 years old and Teresa Bautista Merino, 24 years died from bullet impacts while travelling in the highway from Joya del Mamey to Putla de Guerrero in the State of Oaxaca. Another four people were wounded on April 7, 2008.

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters in Mexico, ARTICLE 19 and Reporters without Borders condemn the murder of two community radio journalists and demand: