CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
World Press Freedom Day – this year theme has been published
- “The theme of this year’s World Press Freedom Day, “Information as a Public Good”, underlines the indisputable importance of verified and reliable information.
- It calls attention to the essential role of free and professional journalists in producing and disseminating this information, by tackling misinformation and other harmful content – Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day
International Firefighters Day – Observed on May 04
- International Firefighters’ Day is observed on May 4.
- It was instituted after a proposal was emailed out across the world on January 4, 1999 due to the deaths of five firefighters in tragic circumstances in a bushfire in Australia.
- The day was instituted, after the deaths of five firefightersin tragic circumstances in a bushfire in Australia on 2 December 1998.
