# According to a UNESCO report, global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2025, over one-thousand-600 journalists were killed around the world, with close to six out of seven cases of these killings remaining judicially unresolved. In 2024 and 2025 alone, 189 journalists were killed in violent attacks, 67-percent occurred in conflict zones. Fifty of those were killed by unmanned aerial vehicles or drones across six war zones. Arab States recorded the highest verified number of cases.
UNESCO report finds that six in seven journalist murders go unpunished