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Getting away with murder:  CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index

Committee to Protect Journalists

This annual resource spotlights countries where journalists are slain and killers go free.

Write Against Impunity: Latin American Authors Commemorate their Murdered Colleagues

PEN International

Including texts from more than 40 contributors, Write Against Impunity is a literary protest against the impunity enjoyed by those who attack and kill writers and journalists in Latin America.

Colombia:  “What violence took away” multimedia presentation

Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)

This multimedia project highlights issues of impunity in the 139 cases of assassinations of journalists in Colombia in the last few decades – using Julio Daniel Chaparro’s cubicle as the way in.

Timeline: What’s happened since Anna Politkovskaya’s murder?

CJFE

CJFE presents a timeline of major events related to the death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, since her murder on October 7, 2006.

Bloggers Under Fire

Electronic Frontier Foundation

This interactive world map shows bloggers who have been threatened or arrested or killed because of their blog posts.

Impunity Project

IAPA

Website highlighting impunity and crimes against journalists through investigative reports, public advertising, seminars, and conferences.

Caught in the Crossfire: Southeast Asia’s Press Freedom Challenges for 2011

SEAPA

This 2011 report examines attacks on free expression across Southeast Asia with a focus on impunity in Indonesia.

Ampatuan Trial Watch

Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility

This website provides updates on the ongoing trial of the Ampatuans and other accused for the murder of at least 57 persons, including 32 journalists. The Ampatuan town massacre is the bloodiest single incident in the history of Philippine media.

Impunity reigns in case of “Battle of the Camels”

ANHRI

ANHRI details the acquittal of 24 former officials who were accused of sending men on camels and horses to break up a protest in Cairo in 2011.

Impunity prevalent in Bahrain; BCHR holds King responsible

BCHR

BCHR study examines the culture of impunity in Bahrain.

Justice Denied in Bahrain

ANHRI,  Front Line Defenders, GCHR, Index on Censorship, IMS and WiPC of PEN International

This report documents the findings of an international delegation, which carried out a fact-finding mission between 20-30 November, 2011, to gain an understanding of the state of free expression and the status of human rights defenders in Bahrain.

Dilemma of the “Arab Spring”: Inadequate reforms, erosion of the civil state, denial of justice

CIHRS

Nearly a year after the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” CIHRS draws attention to the continued denial of justice and ongoing impunity for rights violations committed during the uprisings in various Arab states.

 Conflicts in the Media

IFJ, RUJ, GDF, CJES

“Conflicts in the Media” database offers a broad picture of the changing situation in different parts of the Russian Federation. More specifically, it provides an early warning of the emergence of particular threats, whether directed against the media of a region or against an individual journalist.

“Tell Them That I Want to Kill Them”: Two Decades of Impunity in Hun Sen’s Cambodia

Human Rights Watch

This 68-page report documents key cases of unsolved killings of political activists, journalists, opposition politicians, and others by Cambodian security forces since the 1991 Paris Agreements, which were signed by 18 countries, including the five permanent United Nations Security Council members. The Paris Agreements and the subsequent United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission were supposed to usher in a new era of democracy, human rights, and accountability in Cambodia. More than 300 people have been killed in politically motivated attacks since then, yet not one case has resulted in a credible investigation and conviction.

CMFR International Day to End Impunity microsite

CMFR

This microsite highlights the issue of impunity with a focus on the Ampatuan massacre.


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