Our all-day celebration of CGFoE’s 10-year achievements approaches, and we look forward to seeing you at the Italian Academy on April 25, 2024. Dozens of free speech advocates from around the world will join us for “Safeguarding Free Expression: The Role of Judicial Systems in Pivotal Times.” Did you reserve a spot already? You can still do so here.
Journalists and activists Paul Caruana Galizia and Elena Kostyuchenko will join our Book Talk.
At the event’s book conversation, “Truth, Justice, and the Power of Journalism,” we will sit down with prominent journalists and tireless activists Elena Kostyuchenko, author of I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country, and Paul Caruana Galizia, author of A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice.
A winner of the Orwell Prize Special Award and British Journalism Award, Paul Caruana Galizia became a journalist after his mother, Malta's most well-known investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was assassinated. With his brothers, he has received a Magnitsky Human Rights Award and an Anderson-Lucas-Norman Award for campaigning to achieve justice for Daphne.
A recipient of the European Press Prize, the Gerd Bucerius Award, and the Paul Klebnikov Prize, Elena Kostyuchenko is one of Russia’s most talented and fearless reporters; she spent seventeen years writing for Novaya Gazeta, the country’s last major independent newspaper that was shut down in 2022. Elena will also be CGFoE's keynote speaker at the 2024 Prize Ceremony.
The landmark conference co-chaired by UNESCO will start the day with expert panels on "Breakthrough Verdicts: Legal Decisions Shaping the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals" and "Critical Legal Frontiers: Global Challenges to Freedom of Expression." We will end the event on the most celebratory note - with the 2024 Prize Ceremony and an inspiring musical performance by Vivir Quintana.
Vivir is a Mexican singer-songwriter specializing in genres such as the new Latin American song, ranchero, and folk. Composer, normalista, and women’s rights activist, Vivir is considered one of the most powerful voices of the continent, thanks to her extensive musical work, which highlights “Canción Sin Miedo,” a song that has been covered and translated in many parts of the world.
Vivir Quintana will perform at the 2024 Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prize Ceremony.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a day where dialogue, culture, and advocacy converge.
Celebrate with us, be inspired, and help us continue to make a difference in the world of free expression.
