Press Freedom
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The delegation’s most consequential engagement of the day took place away from the main conference floor. Al Haj, Van Meek and Bayes secured a private…
Press & The Machinery of Suppression
UNESCO’s assessment places the current decline in a broader historical frame. The deterioration in global press freedom since 2012 is, the organisation concludes, comparable in…
Journalism: Uncomfortable Assumptions
The Americas more broadly are suffering. Argentina has fallen 11 places to 98th under a government whose contempt for established media has been an explicit…
Press Freedom Has fallen
For the tenth consecutive year, Norway topped the RSF ranking, followed by the Netherlands and Estonia. Only seven countries in total were rated as having…
Journalism: Where Danger Concentrates
Eritrea ranks last among all 180 countries assessed, a position it has held for three consecutive years. Among those imprisoned there is Dawit Isaak, a…
A Reckoning on World Press Freedom Day 2026
The conditions under which journalists work have never been more perilous. A quarter-century of painstaking progress is being undone with alarming speed. The numbers are unsparing.…
Journalism in the Central Sahel: Choose the Junta’s Narrative or Leave
In Burkina Faso, four journalists and columnists were forcibly conscripted into the army in 2024; the fate of one remains unknown. Amnesty International spoke to…
The Silencing of the Press
The numbers tell a grim story. At least 14 journalists have been killed since January 2026 alone, a toll that reflects both the persistence of…
Journalism Has Become One of the Most Dangerous of Professions
Since October 2023, the UN human rights office has verified the killing of nearly 300 journalists in Gaza alone, with many more injured. The broader…
The World Needs a Free Press. It is Getting the Opposite!
Lusaka hosts the world’s most important journalism gathering at its darkest hour. UNESCO’s flagship report on global trends in freedom of expression and journalism points…
UNESCO Prize 2026
These conditions effectively render Sudan a “zone of silence” in which large parts of the population exist in an information vacuum.
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