Khan also pointed to the erosion of independence, pluralism and economic viability of media in the digital age. Khan cited the case of Philippine Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, who has faced an onslaught of legal actions in the Philippines for her critical reporting of former president Rodrigo Duterte. The old practice of abusing laws – from libel laws to anti-terrorism legislation - to punish journalists and suppress media freedom has been revived by some States with a new ferocity, the report adds. “Such violence inflicts very real psychological injury, chills public interest journalism, kills women’s careers and deprives society of important voices and perspectives,” the report says. The report draws special attention to online attacks against women journalists, which are often vicious, coordinated and highly sexualized, and target women from religious and ethnic minorities or gender non-conforming people. In more than eight out of ten cases, the perpetrators have not been brought to justice. She cited a database site compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that reported that 455 journalists had been killed while doing their jobs between 2016–2021. “Silencing journalists by killing them is the most egregious form of censorship,” Khan said, urging the Council to consider measures to address impunity, including an international taskforce on the prevention, investigation and prosecution of attacks against journalists.
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As examples, she cited online and offline attacks and killing of journalists with impunity criminalisation and harassment of journalists and the erosion of independence, freedom and the plurality of voices and opinions in state and corporate media, including digital companies. However, Khan pointed out the digital age also poses serious challenges and threats. In a report to the Human Rights Council, Khan said digital technology has opened great opportunities for journalists and media freedom, including ground-breaking investigative reporting, cross-border collaboration, fact-checking with audiences, and access to treasure troves of data and sources.
“The consequences for human rights, democracy, public participation and development are worrying.” “The decline of media freedom and the rise in threats to the safety of journalists is a worldwide trend, most sharply evident in backsliding democracies and recalcitrant totalitarian States,” said Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This is the dangerous reality for many journalists around the world as media freedom and safety have diminished in the digital age with a grave impact on human rights, democracy and development, a UN expert warned.
Targeted electronic surveillance to intimidate and silence investigative journalism. Online attacks against women journalists, including death and rape threats. In both those cases, the paintings also weren’t damaged.Reporters getting killed while chasing a story. The painting wasn’t damaged and was returned to its wall a day later.Įarlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and a similar protest happened in London, where protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery. Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in a Dutch museum in October were sentenced to two months in prison. They have managed something that no other action has managed: achieve an extremely large amount of coverage and press.” “There have been lots of similar actions around Europe. “We are campaigning against ‘Scream’ because it is perhaps Norway’s most famous painting,” Astrid Rem, a spokesperson for the Norwegian group, told The Associated Press. It was the latest episode in which climate activists have targeted famous paintings in European museums. Environmental activists from the Norwegian organization “Stopp oljeletinga” - Norwegian for Stop Oil Exploration - were behind the stunt, saying they “wanted to pressure lawmakers into stopping oil exploration.” Norway is a major producer of offshore oil and gas.
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