United States Agency for Global Media

CEO statement on International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

November 2, 2020

Every year journalists are killed, jailed, threatened, and harassed for reporting the news and confronting corruption and powerful forces who prefer to control the information space. In the past two decades, hundreds of journalists have been murdered, imprisoned, or disappeared for trying to do their jobs. All too often, the perpetrators evade justice because governments are complicit or turn a blind eye. Read More