Mexico s endangered conservationists
Local journalists under pressure
The work of local journalists is extremely important for Indigenous communities, said Kathrin Wessendorf, head of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). Each Indigenous community has its own language, and only community reporters can report in that language, she told DW. They also know how best to approach the community to spread the message.
Patricia Gualinga, who fights for Indigenous rights in Ecuador, told DW that large national media networks are often slow to report on environmental and human rights issues. It s really very difficult to get coverage on TV. And if an issue isn t reported by the media, it doesn t exist, she said.
US State Department Concerned on Media Curbs in India Physical attacks and “coordinated hate campaigns” against journalists cited
In a wide-ranging report on human rights violations in India in the year 2020, the US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, has, among other things, detailed attacks on press and media freedom.
Released on March 30, the report quoted Indian journalists as saying that press freedom declined during the year. It quotes
Reporters without Borders 2020 World Press Freedom Index as saying that physical attacks and “coordinated hate campaigns waged on social networks” against journalists were cited as major areas of concern.
By Nava Thakuria
Indian media fraternity sets to bid farewell to the Covid-19 pandemic year 2020 with the horrible statistics of journo-killings with some dangerous countries for working journalists in the world. The largest democracy in the globe witnessed killings of 15 scribes till the last week of December and the populous country also lost over 50 working journalists to novel coronavirus infection aggravated ailments.
India along with Mexico emerged as the hazardous places for scribe this year as the global tally of media-victims to assailants reaches to 92 in 31 countries, said Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based media watchdog in its recent reports. Mexico, as it routinely observes journo-murders for several years, witnessed the killings of 12 scribes in 2020 followed by Pakistan (8 dead), Afghanistan (7), Iraq and Honduras (5 each), etc.
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Two of these murders were in India.
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At least 30 journalists were killed in 2020, of which 21 were singled out for murder in retaliation for their work , according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The number of murdered journalists have doubled from last year s figure of 10.
The numbers were collated for the period from January 1 to December 15, 2020. The organisation said it s still investigating the deaths of 15 other journalists worldwide.
Two of the murders counted for 2020 were in India: journalist Rakesh Singh who died in Balrampur in November after his house was set on fire, and journalist Shubham Mani Tripathi who was shot and killed in Kanpur in June. The other murders took place in Mexico, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Honduras and Yemen, among others.