reported that 853 journalists had received threats between 2017 and 2018. 15 Women journalists, like their male colleagues, face an array of risks due to their work: censorship, assassinations, threats, internal displacement, among others. 19. Along these lines, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has recognized that these groups of women are doubly attacked, for exercising freedom of expression and for their gender: Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, “Women Journalists and Freedom of Expression: Discrimination and GenderBased Violence Faced by Women Journalist in the Exercise of their Profession". 20. It is noted that it is "relevant to indicate that violence against women journalists has a different character, the result of stereotypes and the machista culture that persists in a significant part of the Americas and Colombia. This distinction plays a fundamental role in cases like this, given that ‘gender-based violence, that is, violence directed against a woman because she is a woman or violence that affects women disproportionately, is a form of discrimination against women.’” 16 21. The need to address the issue from a gender perspective is essential. Clearly, Ms. Bedoya in her testimony indicates that these issues must “be reviewed with a gender perspective. Women are singled out and intimidated not because they are journalists, but because they are women. If on May 25 it had not been Jineth Bedoya but Pedro Pérez, they would have sent me a hit man, but since I was Jineth they tortured and raped me. They cannot continue punishing us.” 22. In her expert witness report, Dr. Viseurs Sellers stated: “acts of violence against women journalists are not isolated incidents, but rather such gender-based violence is symptomatic of a pattern of structural discrimination against women rooted in stereotypes of female inferiority. Women journalists in Latin America already face certain obstacles and violence; however, these obstacles and violence are exacerbated as a result of gender inequalities for the fact of their being women.” 15 FLIP, Callar y Fingir, la censura de siempre, annual report 2019, February 2020. Amicus Curiae contributed by the IFEX Global Network for the case of Jineth Bedoya Lima et al. v. Colombia, para. 25. 16 6