A/HRC/14/23 (OHCHR), a joint statement was adopted on freedom of expression and incitement to racial and religious hatred.1 7. From 26 to 29 April, the Special Rapporteur participated in a seminar in Doha organized by the Al-Jazeera Media Training and Development Centre, in cooperation with the Geneva Institute for Human Rights, on the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights. 8. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, as proclaimed by the General Assembly, from 1 to 3 May the Special Rapporteur participated in a seminar organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Doha Centre for Media Freedom. That seminar, which was entitled “The potential of the media: dialogue, mutual understanding and reconciliation”, also served as the venue for the award of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2009. 9. From 1 to 6 June, he participated in the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression, organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 10. From 29 June to 3 July, the Special Rapporteur participated in the sixteenth Annual Meeting of Special Rapporteurs, Representatives, Independent Experts and Chairpersons of Working Groups of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. 11. In July, at the invitation of the Civil Society Advisory Council, the Special Rapporteur travelled to Argentina to take part in various meetings and to support the adoption of the Audiovisual Communication Services Act, which was finally approved. 12. On 1 and 2 September, he participated in a meeting of the Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) in Brussels which focused on freedom of expression on the Internet. 13. On 10 September, he participated in a workshop in Mexico on standards for regulating radio frequency allocation as a guarantee of diversity in broadcasting. He also took part in the sixth annual Transparency Week, held from 27 to 29 October 2009 by the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information, and in a dialogue on freedom of expression, held on 28 October 2009 at the Italian Cultural Institute, with the support of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico. 14. From 13 to 15 October, the Special Rapporteur participated in a conference in Seoul entitled “Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Cyberspace: the situation and challenges in East Asia”. The conference was organized by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, the Korean Network for International Human Rights and the Korean University Global Legal Clinic. 15. From 9 to 10 November, the Special Rapporteur took part in a seminar organized by the Latin American Association for Educational Radio (ALER) in Quito. 16. From 12 to 13 November, the Special Rapporteur attended a meeting of the Permanent Commission on Political and Municipal Affairs and Integration organized by the Latin American Parliament in Buenos Aires. 17. From 15 to 18 November, he participated in the fourth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where he took part in a discussion on access and diversity. 18. From 2 to 5 December, the Second United Nations Regional Conference on Human Rights for Young People in Latin America and the Caribbean took place in Mexico City. 1 4 See the English text of the declaration at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/opinion/docs/ SRJointstatement22April09New.pdf. GE.10-13049