International Press Freedom Day 2020
The Coalition’s Press Freedom Day Campaign 2020 looked at the challenges that women journalists are facing around the world every day. First quarter of 2020 hasn’t been easy for women journalists. We documented almost 150 threats and intimidations between January and April alone, including deportations, imprisonments and deaths. More and more women journalists were also arrested, faced legal persecution, verbally harassed, abused and threatened online, as well as physically harassed, attacked and assaulted while working in precarious conditions.
On Press Freedom Day, we remember the female reporters killed for their job. Two women journalists were killed in Mexico and two more journalists contracted and succumbed to Covid-19 between January to April.
Our Campaign looks to highlight the conditions that women journos face because of their profession.
