Flight and Fight: Supporting Journalists in Exile
Every year, more journalists are forced to flee their home countries, victims of increasingly authoritarian regimes that see independent reporting as a threat to their power. Entire media sectors now function from outside the borders of the nations they aim to serve, a sobering testament to the erosion of democratic norms and freedoms. But the issue of exiled journalists goes beyond individual stories of courage. It strikes at the heart of human rights. Journalists are in exile because their most basic human rights — particularly the right to freedom of expression — are being systematically denied. These are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms of broader failures to uphold international norms and hold oppressive regimes accountable.