2020: Press Freedom Challenges Women Journalists faced around the world. скачать в хорошем качестве

2020: Press Freedom Challenges Women Journalists faced around the world.

2020 has been a challenging year for press freedom and women journalists have been on the rising front of this development. We witnessed a rise in misinformation focused on Covid19 outbreak, elections in several countries including the United States, and a series of protests that sparked across the world. In almost every corner of the world we have witnessed an expedited crackdown on human rights and notorious examples of violence towards civilians and media workers. The growing hostile environment was predominantly fueled by the global pandemic crisis. In 2020, The Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) has followed all these developments monitoring safety of women journalists and we have found an exponential rise in press freedom violations against women journalists. The CFWIJ documented over 705 threats to women journalists: four journalists were murdered, 86 were detained, 67 – subjected to legal harassment whereas 63 were targeted with organized troll campaigns to mention just a few. Details of these violations can be found in our annual report that CFWIJ will release at the beginning of the next year.