Violence against climate reporters around the world is increasing, according to UNESCO report
Demonstrators hold a banner to protest for Francisca Sandoval, a journalist who was shot dead during a May Day rally on 2022, while Chile's President Gabriel Boric delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the World Press Freedom Day Conference, in Santiago , Chile on May 3.Journalists covering environmental issues have become increasingly targeted with violence as the world faces an unprecedented environmental emergency, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday.
“Press freedom is under siege, and environmental journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession,” Guterres said by video message at a World Press Freedom Day event in Santiago, Chile. Of the 44 journalists who were murdered in 15 countries while reporting on environmental issues from 2009 to 2023, only five cases resulted in convictions, according to the UNESCO report.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric said that in Latin America, the situation was “particularly pressing,” with two converging issues: “the protection of environmental defenders and the right to exercise freedom of expression.”
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