Jun 26, 2024 | Reports, Top-line
Special Rapporteur Irene Khan’s report to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council focuses on journalists in exile who face a variety of physical, digital and legal threats. She analyses the responses of States and companies to these threats and challenges. She...
Oct 27, 2023 | News, Top-line
Irene Khan was interviewed on 26 October 2023 by Al Jazeera during its programme Inside Story about the threats to journalists living and working in Gaza. As of October 26, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 27 journalists were among more than 7,000...
Jul 28, 2023 | Statements
28 July 2023 – UN experts* today voiced their concern at disinformation by a media outlet concerning a Human Rights Council event about women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan in June. They issued the following statement: “We are dismayed that a media outlet named...
Mar 11, 2022 | News, Top-line
GENEVA (11 March 2022) – Russia’s recent adoption of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the government to gag and blindfold an entire population, UN human rights experts* said today. On 4 March, the Russian Parliament adopted amendments to the...
