Elana Beiser/ at The Committee to Protect Journalists:
Incremental progress toward reducing the murders of journalists worldwide is fragile and could be thwarted by legal appeals and lack of political leadership, CPJ found in its latest report on impunity in retaliatory media killings.
CPJ’s annual Global Impunity Index, which spotlights countries where journalists are singled out for murder and their killers go free, showed little change from a year earlier. Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan occupy the worst four spots on the list, in that order, as war and political instability perpetuate the cycle of violence and lawlessness.
Global Impunity Index
| Index rank | Country | Population* | Unsolved murders |
| 1 | Somalia | 15.4 | 26 |
| 2 | Syria | 17.1 | 22 |
| 3 | Iraq | 39.3 | 21 |
| 4 | South Sudan | 11.1 | 5 |
| 5 | Afghanistan | 38 | 13 |
| 6 | Mexico | 127.6 | 26 |
| 7 | Philippines | 108.1 | 11 |
| 8 | Brazil | 211 | 15 |
| 9 | Pakistan | 216.6 | 15 |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 163 | 7 |
| 11 | Russia | 144.4 | 6 |
| 12 | India | 1366.4 | 17 |