The journalists face, suffer intimidation and violence. Journalists die. 125 were killed in the world in the last two years, and only a small part were war correspondents, says UNESCO report indicates that a hazardous condition for increasing the work of the news. Do this work; the report said it is difficult, in Italy and worldwide. It 'very risky for the "peace match", i.e. for those reporters who work in countries like ours, where there is no war, and persist in gathering the news in the field, to look at things without blinders, to judge the facts for themselves.E 'risky to tell the facts without stopping the official version or one that is more convenient to someone that matters.E 'describe the risk less than edifying background of small and large business. E 'risky behaviors describe compromising the political and economic power, and even more interests, pressures, constraints and complicity of organized crime. Anyone could talk about these things instead of observing the prudent silence of other journalists. The Unesco report says that those who work it, is also in Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Rome or Mexico City, risking his life as a journalist in war.
The situation is that, although newspapers and television rarely talk about these things. It 's so. This is demonstrated by years, industry observers, concerned by a result of growing violence against journalists, a result that produces the most incisive of the news blackout, and replacing them with harmless (and useless) soft-news: gossip, gossip, tips, workroom, and so 'on.The diagnosis of the international monitoring centers are regularly rejected. So do not be surprised if this is passed over in silence resounding UNESCO report on journalists killed and threatened in the world, and you have not even heard the loud alarm for the safety of journalists in European countries launched by the Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe.
The violence against journalists "busybody," says the UNESCO report, published in Paris on March 25, ramps for two main reasons: inadequate prevention, and the substantial "impunity granted to their assailants. The 125 journalists killed in 2008-2009 are three more than the previous two years. Only a small proportion of them worked in countries at war. The report says that it is difficult to obtain justice for these victims, and points out a fact that should be obvious, but it is not the common perception: the journalists killed were only "the tip of the 'iceberg'. Below that point, lies a huge mass of black which includes thousands of unknown local journalist’s peaceful countries like Italy, France and Germany. Journalists who are working as we said before, and therefore suffer intimidation, threats, damages, reprisals that rarely make the headlines. Formally, in countries where these things happen in force full freedom of press but, says the UNESCO, in reality there is no true freedom of the press, "because the absence of threats is essential because it can exercise its right of citizens to have a reliable information and the right of journalists to provide it without fear for their safety. "
It should be noted that "the murder of journalists is only the most serious attacks on press freedom, which the informants of the profession - said the report presented in Paris - to cope with many other forms of threats, such as intimidation, kidnapping, harassment and physical attacks, as they did note the professional institutions and centers of Journalists for Freedom of the press, with which UNESCO has official relations, such as Reporters Sans Frontiers, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). There have also been attacks on media organizations and initiatives to destroy their property. "
It 'worth recalling that UNESCO is not a subject of a party, but the UN agency responsible for defending the principle of press freedom and freedom of expression enshrined in the Charter of San Francisco, and among its goals is those to "recommend the necessary international agreements to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image". UNESCO speaks so on the basis of reliable measurements, relationships with governments, national institutions of member countries, with unquestionable authority and impartial spirit. The Agency has begun to deal specifically with the killing of journalists in 1997, and called on governments around the world not to allow any mitigating the authors of crimes against the person committed to prevent freedom of expression and the right of citizens to be informed. The Agency at the same time urged the competent authorities of different countries to "prevent, investigate and punish such crimes, and eliminate their consequences." Since then, UNESCO published every two years the list of journalists killed worldwide, and a report on the responses obtained from each country in relation to ITER of justice for the victims. The latest report on the 2008-2009, published on 25 March, contains the alarm to which they have mentioned.
The Council of Europe has long since turned the spotlight on the limits of press freedom in member countries. In recent days, Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg has announced new initiatives as a result of "disturbing violations of freedom of expression." He also denounced the fact that journalists are often the victims of intimidation, violence and even murder. Hammarberg also criticized the fact that the libel in some countries, including Italy, is still a criminal offense.
In short, the Council of Europe and UNESCO-seated beliefs belie the actual warranty granted the freedom of the press and on the risks faced by journalists. It 's strange fate that these considerations do not care, especially in Italy, where the problem occurs with a particular severity, with reporters and writers have to live under guard and threatened with hundreds of reporters, as reported by the weather observatory Oxygen, Freedom House and Reporters Sans Frontieres. To attract the attention, on 3 May, on the initiative of the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, we try to turn all the attention in the press rooms of the world, observing a minute's silence in memory of murdered journalists.
30 KILLED IN PHILIPPINES IN A BLOW
The absence of threats to journalists is the condition of "essential to protect the right of citizens to reliable information, and at the same time to protect the right of journalists to provide it without fear for their personal safety," the report says Unesco - IPDC (International Program for the Development of Communication), published in Paris on 25 March.
The document begins by noting that, despite the conflict in Iraq has passed the stage and bloodiest in the country the number of journalists killed has decreased by 73% (62 to 15), those killed in the rest of the world increased, and also the their total number (125 in 2008-2009 compared to 122 the previous two years). This budget is seriously hampering the ambush of 23 November 2009 on the island of Mindanao (Philippines) in which thirty journalists were killed in the wake of a candidate for governor. 80% of victims listed in the UNESCO report are not war correspondents but local correspondents in countries at peace, reporters who dealt with issues of local interest, and were killed "by those who did not want the journalists to investigate and disclose information the public interest. "
The percentage of journalists killed in situations not related to ongoing conflicts, the Report points out, has significantly increased over the last two years Unfortunately, UNESCO notes, "acts of violence against journalists are increasing in most cases, impunity blocks the course of justice and, if this trend prevails, journalists will remain easy targets. Needless to say, this represents a serious threat to freedom of expression, and our ability to know the truth. " A.Sp.
The violence against journalists "busybody," says the UNESCO report, published in Paris on March 25, ramps for two main reasons: inadequate prevention, and the substantial "impunity granted to their assailants. The 125 journalists killed in 2008-2009 are three more than the previous two years. Only a small proportion of them worked in countries at war. The report says that it is difficult to obtain justice for these victims, and points out a fact that should be obvious, but it is not the common perception: the journalists killed were only "the tip of the 'iceberg'. Below that point, lies a huge mass of black which includes thousands of unknown local journalist’s peaceful countries like Italy, France and Germany. Journalists who are working as we said before, and therefore suffer intimidation, threats, damages, reprisals that rarely make the headlines. Formally, in countries where these things happen in force full freedom of press but, says the UNESCO, in reality there is no true freedom of the press, "because the absence of threats is essential because it can exercise its right of citizens to have a reliable information and the right of journalists to provide it without fear for their safety. "
It should be noted that "the murder of journalists is only the most serious attacks on press freedom, which the informants of the profession - said the report presented in Paris - to cope with many other forms of threats, such as intimidation, kidnapping, harassment and physical attacks, as they did note the professional institutions and centers of Journalists for Freedom of the press, with which UNESCO has official relations, such as Reporters Sans Frontiers, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). There have also been attacks on media organizations and initiatives to destroy their property. "
It 'worth recalling that UNESCO is not a subject of a party, but the UN agency responsible for defending the principle of press freedom and freedom of expression enshrined in the Charter of San Francisco, and among its goals is those to "recommend the necessary international agreements to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image". UNESCO speaks so on the basis of reliable measurements, relationships with governments, national institutions of member countries, with unquestionable authority and impartial spirit. The Agency has begun to deal specifically with the killing of journalists in 1997, and called on governments around the world not to allow any mitigating the authors of crimes against the person committed to prevent freedom of expression and the right of citizens to be informed. The Agency at the same time urged the competent authorities of different countries to "prevent, investigate and punish such crimes, and eliminate their consequences." Since then, UNESCO published every two years the list of journalists killed worldwide, and a report on the responses obtained from each country in relation to ITER of justice for the victims. The latest report on the 2008-2009, published on 25 March, contains the alarm to which they have mentioned.
The Council of Europe has long since turned the spotlight on the limits of press freedom in member countries. In recent days, Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg has announced new initiatives as a result of "disturbing violations of freedom of expression." He also denounced the fact that journalists are often the victims of intimidation, violence and even murder. Hammarberg also criticized the fact that the libel in some countries, including Italy, is still a criminal offense.
In short, the Council of Europe and UNESCO-seated beliefs belie the actual warranty granted the freedom of the press and on the risks faced by journalists. It 's strange fate that these considerations do not care, especially in Italy, where the problem occurs with a particular severity, with reporters and writers have to live under guard and threatened with hundreds of reporters, as reported by the weather observatory Oxygen, Freedom House and Reporters Sans Frontieres. To attract the attention, on 3 May, on the initiative of the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, we try to turn all the attention in the press rooms of the world, observing a minute's silence in memory of murdered journalists.
30 KILLED IN PHILIPPINES IN A BLOW
The absence of threats to journalists is the condition of "essential to protect the right of citizens to reliable information, and at the same time to protect the right of journalists to provide it without fear for their personal safety," the report says Unesco - IPDC (International Program for the Development of Communication), published in Paris on 25 March.
The document begins by noting that, despite the conflict in Iraq has passed the stage and bloodiest in the country the number of journalists killed has decreased by 73% (62 to 15), those killed in the rest of the world increased, and also the their total number (125 in 2008-2009 compared to 122 the previous two years). This budget is seriously hampering the ambush of 23 November 2009 on the island of Mindanao (Philippines) in which thirty journalists were killed in the wake of a candidate for governor. 80% of victims listed in the UNESCO report are not war correspondents but local correspondents in countries at peace, reporters who dealt with issues of local interest, and were killed "by those who did not want the journalists to investigate and disclose information the public interest. "
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