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A Fight for Government Transparency Amid Haiti’s Insecurity

Violent attacks and threats waged by a coalition of militarized gangs are among the many risks Haitian journalists face to report the news.

“The first and most important difference is freedom of movement, the basis of any journalistic work,” said NoonPost’s reporter Hamza Abbas.

Chicangana warned that violence, instability & a lack of resources and support are pushing some journalists out of the profession altogether.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led a solidarity action at the world’s largest investigative journalism conference…

“Journalist Miguel Ángel Beltrán’s shocking killing reaffirms Mexico’s status as the deadliest country for reporters in the Américas.”

The incoming president’s has an opportunity to shift institutional reform and renew respect for democratic values including press freedom,.

Reporters in the US can be silenced and deported for doing their Job is the message from the pending deportation of Mario Guevara.

“It is deeply troubling that Ecuadorian authorities have suspended TV MICC’s signal over allegations of biased coverage of the national protests”.

“Deportation without due process—that would be the new normal set by Mario Guevara’s removal from the United States.”

For over two decades, Bolivian journalists have faced intimidation, legal harassment, & violence from politicians intent on silencing dissent