Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- 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
- Forced to flee: Exiled journalists face unsafe passage and transnational repression
- Israel-Gaza war brings 2023 journalist killings to devastating high
- 2023 prison census: Jailed journalist numbers near record high; Israel imprisonments spike
- Haiti joins list of countries where killers of journalists most likely to go unpunished
- Ecuador on edge: Political paralysis and spiking crime pose new threats to press freedom
- Deadly Pattern: 20 journalists died by Israeli military fire in 22 years. No one has been held accountable.
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.