WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

 

REPORTING ON CORRUPTION - UNODC RESOURCE - WOMEN JOURNALISTS & HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

 

Women Journalists Increasingly at Risk of Threats, Violence

http://awid.org/eng/News-Analysis/Friday-Files/Women-Journalists-in-the-Eye-of-the-Storm

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UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime

 

Direct Link to Full 92-Page 2014 Publication:

http://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/Publications/2014/13-87497_Ebook.pdf

Unfortunately, this growing embrace of the freedoms of opinion and expression including the right of access to information12 has not coincided with better and safer conditions for journalists and a free press. According to a report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 127 journalists were killed doing their jobs in the period 2011-2012. Most of the victims were “journalists reporting on local conflicts, corruption and other illegal activities, and many of these attacks were perpetrated by police and security personnel, militia, as well as non-state actors, such as organized crime groups”.A 2013 Freedom House report found that “less than 14 per cent of the world’s people—or roughly one in six—live in countries where coverage of political news is robust, the safety of journalists is guaranteed, state intrusion in media affairs is minimal, and the press is not subject to onerous legal or economic pressures”.In the past five years, there have been significant declines in many countries, “suggesting that attempts to restrict press freedom are widespread and challenges to expanding media diversity and access to information remain considerable”. Furthermore, journalists are routinely targeted by attackers with impunity in many parts of the world, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Half of all the journalists killed in 2012 covered politics or investigated matters of corruption.