OPINION
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan speaks with Sushmita S Preetha of The Daily ...
International Human Rights Day, marking the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, comes at a dark moment. People, the planet, and polls are in jeopardy.
“First, I am attacked for being a journalist. Second, I am attacked for being a woman.”
That is how Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel Peace laureate, described the orchestrated online campaigns of millions of tweets and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts and comments targeting her with death and rape threats, hateful, racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic abuse and disinformation. The aim was to intimidate, discredit and destroy her.