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"We [the United States] have provided physical and digital training to more than 750 journalists worldwide and we are increasing our funding to $2.5 million this year so we can train even more," Kerry stated.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting independent media efforts in more than thirty countries, Kerry noted.
World Press Freedom Day is celebrated annually on May 3 after it was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in late 1993.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid tribute to media professionals who died while performing their duties, including Russian correspondents killed on business trips abroad.
According to the United Nations, this year's World Press Freedom Day focuses on such aspects of press freedom as freedom of information considered a fundamental freedom and human right, protecting press freedom from being censored, as well as ensuring safety for journalists both online and offline.
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Is this the vision that Kerry and the men behind the mask have in mind as the end result. Endless wars, endless poverty, endless hunger, endless mass ignorance.
The irony is they need us more than we need them.