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India’s rating in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index has slipped to 161 out of 180 countries, in response to the newest report launched by international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). In comparability, Pakistan has fared higher in relation to media freedom because it was positioned at 150, an enchancment from final 12 months’s 157 rank. In 2022, India was ranked at 150.
Sri Lanka additionally made vital enchancment on the index, rating 135 this 12 months as in opposition to 146 in 2022
The Nordic trio of Norway, Ireland and Denmark continued to occupy the highest three positions in press freedom, whereas Vietnam, China and North Korea constituted the underside three.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) comes out with a worldwide rating of press freedom yearly. RSF is a global NGO whose self-proclaimed purpose is to defend and promote media freedom. Headquartered in Paris, it has consultative standing with the United Nations. The goal of the World Press Freedom Index, which it releases yearly, “is to compare the level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media in 180 countries and territories” in the earlier calendar 12 months.
The RSF defines press freedom as “the ability of journalists as individuals and collectives to select, produce, and disseminate news in the public interest independent of political, economic, legal, and social interference and in the absence of threats to their physical and mental safety.”
