The celebration of World Press Freedom Day 2024 is under the theme"A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis". The global event to mark the day, to be held in Santiago, Chile, as well as the national celebrations, will focus on two critical issues - the global environmental crisis and the shrinking space for media practice.
The alarming effects of the climate change crisis in the region have been exacerbated by a growing restriction of the civic space that impedes the work of journalists and activists working to help save the environment. "We were detained unlawfully for five hours in one of our visits to the Apaprama forest. It took several interventions to get us released," Erastus Asare narrated his ordeal to participants at the Media Foundation for West Africa's WPFD's webinar held on May 2, 2024."My driver was assaulted, punched in the face. Our vehicle's windscreen was destroyed. Our camera's were destroyed. They wiped everything clear.
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