Letters

The Committee to Protect Journalists, in partnership with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)—an independent, nonprofit civil society organization—has submitted a report on the state of human rights in Kuwait to the United Nations Human Rights Council ahead of Kuwait’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session on May 7, 2025. The UPR, a United Nations…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 40 other press freedom and human rights organizations have condemned the worsening repression of journalists in Yemen. Journalists continue to face grave threats in areas controlled by both the Houthis and the internationally recognized government. Violations — ranging from arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance to unfair trials — are…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined PEN America and other partner organizations in a joint letter Tuesday urging U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to pressure Vietnam to release all imprisoned journalists in the country, including 2022 International Press Freedom Award winner Pham Doan Trang.   The joint action specifically requests Rubio to call on Vietnam…

The Committee to Protect Journalists and a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers have called for the “active engagement” of the regional bloc ASEAN in protecting press freedom and the formation of an inter-parliamentary alliance to safeguard media rights in the region, which includes some of the worst offenders of press freedom. As governments escalate efforts…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined a coalition of press freedom and media organizations in an April 28 letter urging the U.S. Congress to oppose proposed rescissions to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) funding. The coalition warns Congress that cutting funding for public broadcasting would irreparably harm Americans’ access to independent, reliable, non-commercial…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined six other international and local press freedom organizations in a joint report warning the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of systematic freedom of expression and press freedom violations in Honduras ahead of the country’s human rights record review. The report, sent to the UPR on April…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined Peru’s independent media in a joint statement condemning a law enacted by President Dina Boluarte on April 14 that could negatively impact nonprofit media organizations and journalism operations funded by international cooperation. The law requires such outlets to register their journalistic plans, projects and programs in a state-run registry,…

On his 100th day in office, the Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama to ensure swift and conclusive investigations into cases of attacks against the press, to reform laws that criminalize journalism, and to protect journalists’ privacy. In its April 17 letter, CPJ requested Mahama to take steps to deliver justice…

CPJ joined 31 other organizations in an April 16 statement calling on the European Commission to strengthen its annual rule of law report, which assesses media freedom in European Union member states. The statement said the European Commission “should issue targeted recommendations to mitigate risks to media freedom and pluralism, ensuring a comprehensive and transparent…

April 1, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists joined six other press freedom groups in a joint statement condemning the Nicaraguan government’s failure to cooperate with the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process—a critical mechanism for assessing the human rights records of member states that has resulted in 279 recommendations for Nicaragua. Nicaragua’s final UPR report was…