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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity
Paris: International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) UNESCO (2014), 58 pp.
"This report provides analysis of the 593 killings of journalists as condemned by the Director-General of UNESCO between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2013 with an emphasis on cases which took place in 2012 and 2013. With 123 killings, 2012 constitutes the deadliest year for journalists since the r
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Protecting the Right to Life of Journalists: The Need for a Higher Level of Engagement
Human Rights Quarterly, volume 35, issue 2 (2013), pp. 304-332
"Journalists play a central role in fostering a society based on the open discussion of facts and the pursuit of the truth, as opposed to one based on rumor, prejudice, and the naked exercise of power. As a result, journalists are often literally in the line of fire and deserve special protection. T
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines
Wiley; Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
Rostros y rastros de la libertad de expresión en Latinoamérica y el Caribe: Informe anual de impunidad 2013
Toronto: IFEX-ALC (2013), 33 pp.
Dangerous Work: Violence Against Mexico’s Journalists and Lessons from Colombia
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 32 pp.
"Turning the tide on the killing of journalists involves several steps, but primarily it is a matter of having the political will to acknowledge the issue as important and ending the impunity for those responsible for the violence. These steps include: following through on making attacks on the medi
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Getting Away with Murder: CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2012), 13 pp.
"Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index. The global index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage
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No Justice for Journalists in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia: Impunity and Killings of Journalists Go Hand in Hand
London; Copenhagen: Article 19; International Media Support (IMS) (2011), 41 pp.
Murdering with impunity: The rise in terror tactics against news reporters
Harvard International Review, volume 32, issue 3 (2010), pp. 41-45
"More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous place for journalists, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect. The risks to foreign journalists, especially for (but hardly limited to) Western correspondents, have risen dramatical
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Silence or Death in Mexico’s Press: Crime, Violence, and Corruption Are Destroying the Country’s Journalism
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2010), 43 pp.
This report examines the murders of 22 journalists and three media support workers, along with the disappearances of seven journalists, during the Calderón presidency, which began in December 2006. The report identifies systemic law enforcement failures and offers potential solutions.
The Philippine President as Tortfeasor-in-Chief: Establishing Civil Liability for Constitutional Negligence
Asian Journal of Comparative Law, volume 4 (2009), pp. 1-54
"This article analyzes the liability of the Philippine President for the tort of constitutional negligence in relation to the murders and forced disappearances of leftists, journalists, and other dissidents. It uses the international law doctrine of command responsibility as a form of attribution th
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Growth Under Adversity: Afghanistan Press Freedom Report 2007-2008
Redfern; Kabul: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific; Afghan Independent Journalists' Association (AIJA) (2008), 19 pp.
"Independent media have expanded and diversified in Afghanistan, though the country remains a precarious and hazardous place for journalists and media organisations. Nine journalists have been killed between January 1, 2007 and the writing of these lines (though one case remains a little unclear), w
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Killing the Messenger: Report of the Global Inquiry by the International News Safety Institute Into the Protection of Journalists
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Brussels: International News Safety Institute (INSI) (2007), 72 pp.
"One thousand journalists and support staff have died trying to report the news around the world in the past 10 years: an average of two a week. Only one in four news media staff died covering war and other armed conflicts. The great majority died in peacetime, working in their own countries. At lea
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Dangerous assignment
American Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 6 (2005), pp. 44-51
"Iraq has proven to be a particularly hazardous posting for journalists. More media workers have been killed there than during the two-decades-long war in Vietnam. And 15 have died at the hands of American forces." (Introduction)
‘Enough is Enough’: An ethnography of the struggle against impunity in Burkina Faso
Journal of Modern African Studies, volume 40, issue 2 (2002), pp. 217-246
"This article analyses the ways in which socio-political opposition is expressed by looking into the morally loaded discourse of political legitimacy in Burkina Faso that emerged after the assassination of the journalist Norbert Zongo in December. Through the analysis of different political statemen
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Violence against the Press in Latin America: Protections and Remedies in International Law
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 78, issue 2 (2001), pp. 275-290
"This article identifies a trend in international law addressing the murders of journalists in Latin America. Recent cases by international human-rights tribunals are analyzed for their holdings that murders of journalists violate the free-expression guarantees of the American Convention on Human Ri
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Impunity no more: Unpunished Crimes Against Journalists
Miami: Inter American Press Association (IAPA); Colonial Press International (1999), 221 pp.
"The document discusses the Inter American Press Association's (IAPA) project on unpunished crimes against journalists. Over the past decade, more than 200 journalists have been murdered for doing their jobs reporting the news. Many of these crimes remain unsolved, allowing impunity to prevail. The
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