Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths
- ‘We returned from hell’: Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons
- 2025 journalist jailings remain stubbornly high; harsh prison conditions pervasive
- Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy
- 2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel
- In record year, China, Israel, and Myanmar are world’s leading jailers of journalists
- Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows
- No justice for journalists targeted by Israel despite strong evidence of war crime
- On Edge: What the US election could mean for journalists and global press freedom
Reporter Without Borders
Under Threat: CFWIJ Report Shows 145 Women Journalists Attacked in 1st Quarter of 2023
The CFWIJ has published its first quarterly report documenting press freedom violations against women and LGBTQI journalists.
Below you can find key takeaways from the report:
- At least 145 women journalists were subjected to violations and threats during the first quarter of 2023.
- At least 100 women journalists spent the first quarter of 2023 behind bars, only 4% less than in the first quarter of the previous year.
- CFWIJ documented 24 physical assaults on women journalists in the first quarter of 2023. The number of assaults has risen by 4.3% since first three months of 2022.
- 23 women journalists were legally harassed in the first quarter of 2023 as documented by CFWIJ. Using the law to pressure journalists continues to be a serious threat to press freedom.
- In the first quarter of 2023, CFWIJ documented 4 new SLAPP cases launched against women journalists, of those 2 are in Eastern Europe.