2011 has been again a bad year for the press. 43 journalists have been killed around the world in direct relation to their work, with Pakistan infamously topping with 7 deaths.
This tallly by the Committee to Protect Journalists, reminds us that journalists pay a heavy price to inform the public, in particular on conflicts and issues that have a strong human rights angle, like wars or street "crowd control" operations where civilians are often directly targeted or victims of "collateral damage", but also in countries, like Mexico, affected by wholesale corruption or narco-criminilaty.
The fight against impunity remains one of the major objectives of the CPJ and other press freedom organizations. State authorities have to send a strong message that crimes will not go unpunished. If not journalists' murderers will keep their license to kill and intimidate the press.
The safety of journalists, it should be emphasized, is not a corporatist concern. It affects the capacity of all to have access everywhere in the world to crucial information on issues of public interest.
http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/12/journalists-killed-political-unrest-proves-deadly.php
This tallly by the Committee to Protect Journalists, reminds us that journalists pay a heavy price to inform the public, in particular on conflicts and issues that have a strong human rights angle, like wars or street "crowd control" operations where civilians are often directly targeted or victims of "collateral damage", but also in countries, like Mexico, affected by wholesale corruption or narco-criminilaty.
The fight against impunity remains one of the major objectives of the CPJ and other press freedom organizations. State authorities have to send a strong message that crimes will not go unpunished. If not journalists' murderers will keep their license to kill and intimidate the press.
The safety of journalists, it should be emphasized, is not a corporatist concern. It affects the capacity of all to have access everywhere in the world to crucial information on issues of public interest.
http://www.cpj.org/reports/2011/12/journalists-killed-political-unrest-proves-deadly.php
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