2024 Global Impunity Index Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Journalists photograph and film Kenyan police as they guard the U.S. Embassy in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on July 5, 2024. Haiti and Israel rank as the world’s worst offenders in letting journalists’ murderers go unpunished, according to CPJ’s 2024 Global Impunity Index. (Photo: AFP/Clarens Siffroy)

CPJ 2024 Impunity Index: Haiti and Israel top list of countries where journalist murders go unpunished

October 30, 2024 9:30 AM EDT

Updated on September 24, 2026 4:02 PM EDT

Correction: Based on new information, the number of worldwide journalist and media worker casualties has changed. In 2023, the percentage of the worldwide total who were killed in the Israel-Gaza war was changed from “more than three quarters” to almost three quarters. In keeping with CPJ’s methodology, data is updated as new information becomes available….