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STORY: UN / SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 2 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
2 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Med shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“With this perfect storm of problems against press freedom, [there is also] a huge element of economic challenges for the news media sector to survive all over the world. So, in a nutshell, we have the usual sorts of attacks against press freedom, physical attack, killings, attacks during covering protests, then rise on arbitrary detainment, but also come together with new formats like online harassment, misuse of the judicial system, regulatory problems and then the economic problems.”
4. Close up, journalist asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“We released the global statistics last year that 85 percent of the world population have experienced the downsizing of their freedom of expression in the last five years. So unfortunately, there is a tendency of going backwards on that.
6. Med shot, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“Last year, the data regarding the killings of journalists, according to the condemnations of the UNESCO Director-General have increased 50 percent compared to the previous year, so it's also an increase in the number of killings. There are problems, for instance, regarding the online harassment against women journalists. Our data shows that 73 percent of the women journalists we have interviewed for this particular research communicated they suffered online harassment in a way or another.”
8. Close up, journalist asking question
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“A recent UNESCO survey has shown attacks against journalists covering protests in 65 countries in all regions. We also have recently published data showing the use of the judicial system to harass journalists in all regions, with 160 UN member states still keeping freedom of expression under criminal code.”
10. Med shot, briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“The main thematic of the World Press Freedom Day in 2023 is freedom of expression as an enabler of all other human rights. So really the key message we want to discuss during all these different events that are taking place, including this one here at the UN headquarters, is the central idea that freedom of expression is at the same time an individual right, but it's also a collective right.”
12. Close up, journalist asking question
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of Section, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
“When a journalist is killed in a particular city or in a particular region is of course his or her rights to freedom of expression that is being eliminated in the most cruel way, but it's also the freedom of expression and freedom of information of their entire community that is being eliminated.”
14. Med shot, briefing room
The Chief of Section of the Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, described a “perfect storm of problems against press freedom”.
Briefing journalists in New York on Tuesday (2 May) ahead of the World Press Freedom Day (3 May), Godoi added, “So, in a nutshell, we have the usual sorts of attacks against press freedom, physical attack, killings, attacks during covering protests, then rise on arbitrary detainment, but also come together with new formats like online harassment, misuse of the judicial system, regulatory problems and then the economic problems.”
Godoi highlighted global statistics, released last year, showing that “85 percent of the world population have experienced the downsizing of their freedom of expression in the last five years.”
“So unfortunately, there is a tendency of going backwards on that,” said the UNESCO expert.
Godoi added that, regarding the killings of journalists, “according to the condemnations of the UNESCO Director-General [they] have increased 50 percent compared to the previous year.”
He also noted problems with online harassment against women journalists, recalling data that shows that 73 percent of the women journalists interviewed for a particular survey had suffered online harassment in a way or another.
According to him, a recent UNESCO survey has shown attacks against journalists covering protests in 65 countries in all regions. At the same time, 160 UN member states still keep freedom of expression under criminal code.
The expert said that “the main thematic of the World Press Freedom Day in 2023 is freedom of expression as an enabler of all other human rights” with the goal of discussing “the central idea that freedom of expression is at the same time an individual right, but it's also a collective right.”
Godoi concluded, “When a journalist is killed in a particular city or in a particular region is of course his or her rights to freedom of expression that is being eliminated in the most cruel way, but it's also the freedom of expression and freedom of information of their entire community that is being eliminated.”
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