Whereas Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in Paris, France, on December 10, 1948, states that [e]veryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers ; Whereas, in 1993, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed May 3 of each year as World Press Freedom Day to— (1) celebrate the fundamental principles of freedom of the press; (2) evaluate freedom of the press around the world; (3) defend against attacks on the independence of the media; and (4) pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession; Whereas, on December 18, 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 163 (2013) on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity, which unequivocally condemns, in both conflict and nonconflict situations, all attacks on and violence against journalists and media workers, including torture, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, and intimidation and harassment; Whereas the theme for World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2018, is Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law ; Whereas the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act of 2009 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 note; Public Law 111–166 ), which was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, expanded the annual Human Rights Reports of the Department of State to include an examination of freedom of the press; Whereas the 2017 World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders, warned that media freedom has retreated wherever the authoritarian strongman model has triumphed ; Whereas Freedom House noted in the report Freedom of the Press 2017 that— (1) global press freedom has declined to its lowest point in 13 years