While Europe leads rankings for press freedoms worldwide, its position is put to test in some countries where restrictions to media freedom and increased pressures on journalists continue to raise concerns. In efforts to spark awareness about press freedom violations, a mapping project led by Index of Censorship and the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso is crowd-sourcing media freedom violations across the European Union and five candidate countries at Mediafreedom.ushahidi.com.