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Although the number of journalists killed around the world has declined, far too many are still paying the ultimate price for their reporting.

ARTICLE 19 denounces the brutal attack against a number of journalists by a group of protesters, and calls on the Tunisian authorities to ensure that the aggressors do not enjoy impunity and to deploy greater efforts to protect journalists while they are carrying out their work.

UN Day to End Impunity: Governments must protect media workers

Thank you Madam Chair Thank you Ms Leirtroe for your report today and please pass on our thanks to your team for their work over the last twelve months. At yesterday’s informal meeting, we heard first hand from one of your key interlocutors – Director Ljubojevic. This practice really helps Vienna delegations understand better the impact the OSCE field presences are having on the ground. We look forward to further such briefings in the next reporting period. We appreciate that the Mission wa...

Insecurity: Violence kills 4, 556 Nigerians in 2020 — Global Rights On As projections for peace, security in Nigeria remain bleak By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja An international rights organization, Global Rights Nigeria, Monday, reported that 4, 556 Nigerians were killed in 2020 as the insecurity situation remains worrisome across the country. The report called ‘Mass Atrocities Report 2020’ was made public by the Country Director, Global Rights Nigeria, Abiodun Baiyewu, at a media briefing,...

journalists Given the sensitive duties of journalists in giving vent to the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression for which the institution has been dubbed the fourth estate of the realm, the spate of violence unleashed on Nigerian journalists in recent times calls for concern. And although journalists are part of a larger society that is being daily dehumanised by insecurity in the land, the governments of the federation at all levels need to be more proactive to journalists’ wel...

Stop killing journalists. Credit: UNESCO Jan 18 2021 - When journalists are targeted, “societies as a whole pay a price”, the UN chief said on November 2, 2020, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. “If we do not protect journalists, our ability to remain informed and make evidence-based decisions is severely hampered”, Secretary-General António Guterres spelled out in his message for the day.   And when they cannot safely do their jobs, “we lose an...

Lanre Arogundade Participants at the International Press Centre’s (IPC) media roundtable and stakeholders’ forum on journalists’ safety and press freedom limitations in Nigeria held in Lagos last week have restated the need for safety of journalists to be given desired attention and utmost priority. Drawn from the print, electronic, online media, academics and civil society, the participants observed that the country’s media space is shrinking, which adversely, is affecting journalists...

Lanre Arogundade Participants at the International Press Centre’s (IPC) media roundtable and stakeholders’ forum on journalists’ safety and press freedom limitations in Nigeria held in Lagos last week have restated the need for safety of journalists to be given desired attention and utmost priority. Drawn from the print, electronic, online media, academics and civil society, the participants observed that the country’s media space is shrinking, which adversely, is affecting journalists...

IFJ 10 December 2020 India: Journalist attacked by mob for reporting on illegal slaughterhouse Senior journalist and editor of Vijaya Times, Vijayalakshmi Shibaroor, was allegedly threatened and physically assaulted by a violent mob, while reporting on illegal slaughterhouses in Pension Mohalla in the Hassan district of Karnataka state. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliates the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and the National Union of Journalists India (NU...