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World Association of Newspapers
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The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization made up of 72 national newspaper associations, 13 news agencies, nine regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries.
Founded in 1948, the association represents more than 18,000 publications on five continents. Its main objectives are to:
- defend and promote press freedom
- support the development of newspaper publishing around the world
- promote co-operation between its member organisations
WAN administers the Golden Pen of Freedom Award, a prestigious prize that honours a journalist or media organisation anywhere in the world that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of press freedom.
WAN is a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of non-governmental organisations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and defends journalists, writers, Internet users and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
It also belongs to the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group, a coalition of 16 free expression groups that seeks to pressure Tunisia into improving its human rights record.