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An Attack on One is an Attack on All: Successful Initiatives to Protect Journalists and Combat Impunity
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 98 pp.
"This report takes a look at a selection of the innovative, successful ways media companies, individual journalists and civil society organizations are coming together to improve journalist safety. These are cases of people taking the initiative, of acting on behalf of the profession, of not sitting
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Defending Journalism: How National Mechanisms Can Protect Journalists and Address the Issue of Impunity. A Comparative Analysis of Practices in Seven Countries
Deep Insights
International Media Support (IMS) (2017), 250 pp.
"The research documents how, despite immense ongoing challenges, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal and Pakistan, some important advances have been made to develop joint structures and innovative approaches to defend the practice of journalism. It examines the long road Colombia has followed in the establi
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Une personne attaquée, tous concernés: Initiatives exemplaires de protection des journalistes et de lutte contre l'impunité
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 98 pp.
"Ce rapport met en lumière une sélection de voies et moyens novateurs et efficaces grâce auxquels des entreprises de presse, des journalistes et des organisations de la société civile se regroupent pour améliorer la sécurité des journalistes. Ce sont des cas de gens qui prennent des initiati
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Atentar contra uno es atentar contra todos: Iniciativas exitosas para proteger a los periodistas y combatir la impunidad
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 98 pp.
"Este informe presenta una selección de las formas innovadoras y exitosas por las cuales los medios de comunicación, sus profesionales y las organizaciones sociales se están agrupando para mejorar la seguridad de los periodistas. Estos son casos de personas que han tomado la iniciativa, en nombre
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Tribal Journalists under Fire: Threats, impunity and decision making in reporting on conflict in Pakistan
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 147-158
"This study investigates the challenges faced by local journalists caught between the global “war on terror” and its local consequences in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Threats and impunity are commonplace in this buffer zone bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, compell
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Global violence against journalists: The power of impunity and emerging initiatives to evoke social change
"Civic organizations, groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, play a key role in the production and circulation of human rights discourses. Scholars have examined the strategies civic organizations use to attract media coverage, the permeability of the news media to human rights me
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"This report provides an overview of a decade of killings of journalists, media workers and social media producers, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2015. The extent of the risks faced by those exercising their right to express opinions and disseminate information is demonstrated by the figure
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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
Deep Insights
United Nations (2016), 21 pp.
"The UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity is a systematic UN-wide plan to work toward a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, including social media producers of public interest journalism, with a view to strengthen peace, democracy, and dev
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Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand
Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-61
"Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less atte
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"Ending the culture of impunity requires strengthening the culture of resistance. Impunity results in the dearth or absence of press freedom which, in turn, has deleterious effects on the practice of journalism as the people are deprived of relevant information that could help shape public opinion.
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Prevent and Punish: In Search of Solutions to Fight Violence Against Journalists
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 25 pp.
"This paper serves as an overview of the global pattern of crimes committed against media workers, the impunity connected with such acts, and the steps both the international community and individual states have taken to confront the situation. The first chapter introduces the magnitude of the trend
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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity
Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (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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Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity
London: PEN International (2014), 89 pp.
Combating Impunity of Crimes against Press Freedom
New Media and Mass Communication, volume 21 (2014), pp. 29-39
"Worried by the rising incidence of arrests, detention, jail, harassment and even murder of journalists across the world, all of which are crimes against press freedom, this paper takes a look at the reasons for the unpunished offences against press men and women and examines the efforts made to com
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The Road to Justice: Breaking the Cycle of Impunity in the Killing of Journalists
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2014), 47 pp.
"CPJ’s analysis of global rates of impunity in journalist killings over the past seven years shows that they have for the most part gotten worse. There are some encouraging signs in the data. The number of convictions of suspects behind these crimes appears to be slightly on the rise, but thi s nu
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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity: Implementation Strategy 2013-2014
Paris: UNESCO (2013), 31 pp.
"This document provides the United Nations Implementation Strategy 2013-2014 of the UN Plan of Action on The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity (hereafter referred to as the UN Plan). In addition to the Strategy, there is a detailed Work-Plan to put the Strategy into place." (Introducti
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Legal avenues for ending impunity for the death of journalists in conflict zones: Current and proposed international agreements
International Journal of Communication, volume 7 (2013), pp. 2157-2177
"Every bullet that kills a journalist in a warzone adds passion and urgency to calls for “something” to be done to better protect frontline media workers. International humanitarian law (the body of law that includes the Geneva Conventions) offers some avenues for legal redress, but problems wit
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UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 8 pp.
"The Plan of Action aims to creating of a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers, both in conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide. Its measures include, among other undertakings, the establishment of a coordin
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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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