The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a global online database of journalists who have suffered violent deaths relating to their work since 1992. The database is designed to memorialize those who have died and to call for justice in unsolved cases.
Three Latin American countries, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, are among the 10 deadliest for journalists, with Colombia in third with 39 cases.
The database is part of the CPJ’s Global Campaign Against Impunity, which seeks to pressure authorities to solve crimes against journalists, as no convictions have been obtained in 85% of all cases in the database. The program is inspired by the relative success of the Inter American Press Association’s Impunity Project in improving the justice rate in Latin America.
The resource is available online and in an Excel spreadsheet.
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