World Press Freedom Day: Gaza conflict deadliest for journalists
Al Jazeera
As the war in Gaza becomes the deadliest conflict for journalists, Al Jazeera looks at press freedom in the past year.
Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day.
It is being marked today at a particularly perilous time for journalists globally, with Israel’s war on Gaza becoming the deadliest conflict for journalists and media workers.
“When we lose a journalist, we lose our eyes and ears to the outside world. We lose a voice for the voiceless,” Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement today.
“World Press Freedom Day was established to celebrate the value of truth and to protect the people who work courageously to uncover it.”
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