Islamabad, November 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): UNESCO has warned that the global impunity rate for journalists` killings remains shockingly high at 86 per cent with five unnatural deaths in India in 2021. UNESCO report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity for the period 2020-21 shows that the impunity rate has fallen by only 9pc over the last 10 years. UNESCO welcomes this progress, but warns such a decrease is insufficient to succeed in stopping violence.
Overall, these two years saw the lowest number of deaths than any other reporting period since the first publication of this report in 2008. The year 2021 shows the lowest annual death toll in 14 years with 55 killings. In 2021, the largest number of fatal attacks (23 killings) occurred in Asia and the Pacific, representing 42pc of killings registered worldwide, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean with 25pc of killings (14 killings).
According to the UNESCO data, in 2021, nine journalists were killed in Mexico; seven in Afghanistan and five in India; more than double in volatile Somalia, which saw two killings during the year. The UNESCO report shows that in 2020-2021, of the 117 journalists killed for being journalists, 91 or 78pc were killed while off the clock, for example at home, in their vehicles or in the street but not on specific assignment. Several were killed in front of family members, including their children.
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