AFGHANISTAN May 03, 2021 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Centre for the Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) sound the alarm about the plight of the media and the future for journalism in Afghanistan. The press freedom situation is disastrous …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the list of 12 journalists and media outlets from 12 countries who have been nominated for the 2020 RSF Press Freedom Awards, to be awarded in Taipei on 8 December. Seven journalists ­– four of them women – and five media outlets (or journalists’ …

The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, with the Covid-19 pandemic highlighting and amplifying the many crises that threaten the right to freely reported, independent, diverse and reliable information. This 2020 edition …

As the coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Centre for the Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) are concerned about its impact on the country’s journalists, especially women journalists, who are more vulnerable. They are threatened by economic precarity, the lack of protection and fierce competition …

  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is saddened to learn that Mohammad Salim Inghar, a cameraman with Afghanistan’s national TV broadcaster, was among those killed in a Taliban armed attack on the governor’s compound in Kandahar province on 18 October. Aged 64, he was the father of six children. Two senior …