Brazil

The report contains previously unpublished data on the obstacles to press freedom, particularly for local journalists, in the Brazilian Amazon, a region at the heart of the global climate challenge.

CPJ has worked with local partners to compile this directory of resources providing different types of legal aid to help connect journalists in Brazil in need of legal support with the initiatives and organizations that can support them.

ARTICLE 19 points out various aspects of the Brazilian electoral process, analyzing the many challenges the country faces from now until October 2022, and then after the elections and the transition, with the recurring threats to the reputation and integrity of the elections made by government officials and members of the armed forces.

Efforts to Ban Gender and Sexuality Education in Brazil

This report, supported by UNESCO’s Global Media Defense Fund, provides an overview of violence against women journalists and gender-based attacks on communicators in Brazil in 2021.

In September, the government eliminated the board of trustees of the public Brazilian Communications Company (EBC), which manages Brazil’s public radio and television stations as well as a news agency; the board was intended to ensure the body’s independence. Additional changes allow for the president to appoint and dismiss its top executive.

Violence against journalists spiked in 2016, with no fewer than six reporters killed in retaliation for their work.

“Constitution for the internet” introduced

Ranked 90th in annual global media freedom report

Ranked 90th in annual global media freedom report

Comprehensive freedom of information act not yet implemented a year after becoming law

“Freedom of expression has drastically deteriorated”

“Deadly violence” against journalists continues

Ranked 111th in annual press freedom index

Police officers charged with aggravated homicide in deaths of six journalists

Ranked 91st in annual global media freedom report

The report examines all of the shortcomings of this South American giant’s media landscape It is based on fact-finding visits to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia in November 2012.

Long-awaited freedom of information bill goes into effect

“Sluggish” Brazilian judicial system leads to impunity for murdered journalists and delays in censorship appeals

“In the first half of 2011, Brazilian authorities issued 224 takedown orders to Google, more than any other country in the world”

Brazil falls 41 positions to 99th place in annual press freedom index

Radio journalist shot for reporting on corruption by local government officials, fifth journalist killed in 2011