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World Press Freedom Day 2024

A series of reports and features on the state of press freedom around the world in an age of state violence, repression and disinformation

  • People gather outside the Church of the Nativity to commemorate the journalist killed  in the ongoing war in Gaza on May 05, 2024, in Bethlehem, West Bank

    A journalist’s brave quest for truth in the West Bank

  • Two young women in headscarves seen on a screen

    Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters

  • The relatives of British journalist Dom Phillips and activists hold a large poster with his image, left, and that of Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, with the Portuguese message: "Justice for Dom and Bruno" at the one-year anniversary commemoration since their murders, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 5, 2023. The two were were killed in the Amazon's Vale do Javari area. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

    ‘It’s so frustrating’: two years on and still no justice for Bruno and Dom murders

    Three men await trial in Brazil for the killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, but no date is set and Amazon activists still live in fear of violence
  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

    Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But, for many, the intimidation did not stop when they left
  • Funeral of Palestinian TV reporter Abu Hatab killed in Israeli attacks, Khan Younis, Gaza, 3 November 2023

    Attacks on press freedom around the world are intensifying, index reveals

    In the past year, in virtually every region, journalists and independent media outlets faced increasing repression
  • Indigenous people and human rights activists attend a vigil for justice in the deaths of  environmental journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira

    Violent attacks against environmental journalists on the rise, report finds

  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

  • Guardian Documentary, 'House No.30, Kabul' featuring Zaki Daryabi, the founder of the Afghan newspaper, The Etilaat Roz

    Can journalism survive the Taliban?

    The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist.
  • House No 30, Kabul

    The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile

    Sakhidad Hatif
    We shed light on the Taliban’s crimes from the US, thanks to the extreme bravery of reporters on the ground, says Afghan journalist Sakhidad Hatif
  • A police officer points a finger at the photographer as a man and woman hug in a large crowd of protesters and police

    China erases memory of ‘white paper’ protests in further threat to journalism

    Silencing of a film-maker documenting the widespread 2022 demonstrations against Covid controls is part of rising suppression of press freedom
  • From left; Protest over the then missing journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira; Commemoration of journalist Rafael Moreno; Mural of late Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh,

    Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth

    Jonathan Watts
    Last year was the most dangerous to be a reporter since 2015. Without the courage of correspondents risking everything to report from conflict areas, we could be at risk of ‘zones of silence’ spreading around the world
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