📋 Tender Overview
A free and independent press plays a critical role in spreading democracy and reporting events around the world both frightening and hopeful. Journalists are the backbone of an independent press providing the public with facts and holding governments to account all the while often facing danger and hardship. On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists we once again call for justice for courageous journalists around the world.Since 1992 more than 1500 journalists and media workers have been killed while searching for information with most of these murders remaining unsolved in the judicial system. As of December last year 294 journalists were languishing in prison for doing their jobs according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Increasingly journalists are facing threats and attacks online where it can be difficult to identify the perpetrator and bring him to justice. Women journalists are disproportionately harassed and abused online exacerbating the forms of violence they face in real life. According to a UNESCO survey 73 percent of women journalists have been harassed online because of their work. We also see how governments are increasingly moving beyond their borders misusing digital surveillance tools that track communications and the whereabouts of journalists. Digital surveillance and online threats can fuel threats and violence in real life ultimately limiting the ability of journalists to report accurate information.
