International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
Some chilling statistics as we prepare for November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Every four days, a journalist is murdered, often because he or she denounced corruption, trafficking, political wrongdoing or human rights abuses. Those responsible often go unpunished.
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It may be business as usual for those who seek to silence journalists, intimidate the media, or discredit our public information role, but recent weeks have seen an entirely new level of contempt for a profession desperately seeking assistance in the fight against global impunity.
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2 November marks the International Day to #ENDimpunity for Crimes Against Journalists. While an increasing number of countries responded to UNESCO’s requests for information on judicial standings of cases involving killed journalists, the report also reveals a global standstill for punishing these atrocities.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual Global Impunity Index, appropriately entitled Getting Away with Murder to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists on November 2. The data points to a rise of extremist groups targeting media personnel with few governments committing to overhaul or even acknowledge these injustices.
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Today is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, a day that draws together efforts to denounce threats to journalists and media freedom worldwide. Join us in denouncing attacks on journalists #endimpunity
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To mark the International Day to End Impunity and Crimes Against Journalists, Zaffar wrote to his WEF colleagues giving them an update on his recent work to bring the safety of journalists in Pakistan to greater attention. His inspiring account is reproduced here, with permission.
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Less than one in ten cases involving the killing of journalists are ever resolved.The near complete impunity for the perpetrators of crimes against journalists goes against everything that we stand for, our shared values, our common objectives, says Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO in a statement ahead of November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
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