Tag: journalists

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Record number of imprisoned journalists in 2011, claims CPJ

  

  The number of journalists jailed around the world increased more than 20% in 2011, mainly because of government crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa, a nonprofit organization said Thursday.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 17:50 UTC

  IPI calls for Latam authorities to protect 12 journalists that received death threats

  

  The International Press Institute warned in Vienna of the dangerous situation that twelve Latin American journalists are undergoing having received death threats, and called con authorities to take measures and avoid further killings.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:30 UTC

  UNESCO drafts action plan to improve journalists’ safety and punish instigators

  

  Participants at a UN forum that met in Paris have drafted an action plan to improve the safety of journalists and ensure that crimes committed against them do not go unpunished.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  Organized crime and authoritarian rulers, main threat for journalists in the Americas

  

  Organized crime and authoritarian governments have become the main enemies for freedom of expression in the Americas said Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association.

• Sunday, January 2nd 2011 - 21:24 UTC

  Latin America the most dangerous region for journalists in 2010

  

  Latin America was the most dangerous region for the press in 2010, with 35 of the 105 murders of journalists that occurred worldwide, according to the Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2010 - 19:36 UTC

  At least 30 Latam journalists killed doing their job in nine months

  

  At least 90 journalists (30 in Latinamerica) have been killed doing their job so far this year, a 25% increase on the same period of 2009, the media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said this week. PEC has also called on the UN Humans Rights Council to urgently take up the matter.