International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

#KeepTruthAlive: New UNESCO campaign to commemorate International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

November 19, 2019November 16, 2019 Stuart Mitchell

On 2 November, on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI), UNESCO launched its new global communication campaign #KeepTruthAlive, developed pro bono by the creative agency Doyle Dan Bernbach (DDB Paris), which shines a light on the dangers faced by local journalists around the world. Indeed, in the last decade, 93% of journalists that have been killed were local journalists, many of them covering local issues such as corruption, trafficking and politics. Through a series of photographs, courtesy of Charles Petit, the campaign…

UNESCO launches Observatory of Killed Journalists, tracking actions taken to punish crimes against media practitioners

November 11, 2018November 6, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November, UNESCO launched the Observatory of Killed Journalists. The Observatory is an online database providing information on the status of judicial enquiries into each killing of a journalist or media worker recorded by UNESCO since 1993, based on information provided by the country in which the killing took place. According to the 2018 UNESCO Director-General Report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity, one journalist or media personnel is killed every four days. These deaths provide a…