Sixty-one journalists were killed while carrying out their work in 2014, according to the United Nations.
World Press Freedom Day on Sunday is celebrating the contribution of media workers to promoting free speech and democracy.
As conflicts rage around the world journalists, editors and publishers are increasingly experiencing harassment and sometimes even deadly attacks.
A documentary film which promotes the rights of people with albinism in Africa has been touring rural areas in Tanzania.
The film, In the Shadow of the Sun, aims to educate communities and dispel myths about albinos.
According to the UN human rights office, at least 73 people with the condition have been murdered in Tanzania since 2000.
Their body parts are often used in ritual medicine.
Melanie Lyn asked film director Harry Freeland, how he was drawn to the subject of albinism.
Africa will need to find more new jobs over the next years than the rest of the world combined.
Those are the findings of a report looking at the economic prospects for the Sub-Saharan region, which show the continent is on the cusp of significant demographic change.
The report also predicts that the region is set for another year of solid performance in 2015 despite declining commodity prices.
The future prospects for development for indigenous groups around the world is getting worse, according to the secretary-general of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact.
Joan Carling says that indigenous people often have a different view on what sustainable development entails compared to the governments which will ultimately make the decision on future development targets.
The Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, are to be agreed by the international community in September.
The authorities in Nepal are working with the international community to ensure the supply of clean water to prevent the spread of disease following the devastating earthquake which hit the country a week ago.
Around 6,000 people were killed and at least 2.8 million displaced by the tremor.
Widespread damage was caused to health infrastructure leaving the water supply vulnerable to contamination.
Paul Garwood from the UN’s World Health Organization is currently in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) is the next stepping stone to create a nuclear free world, according to its Executive Secretary.
The CTBT works to make it difficult for countries to start developing nuclear bombs, or for countries that already have them to make more powerful ones.
Lassina Zerbo was at UN Headquarters to attend a review conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
