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Security Council Voices Alarm at Growing Threats to Journalists
Strongly condemning impunity for attacks on journalists, which had greatly increased globally, the Security Council, during an all day open debate today, called on parties to conflict and all Member States to create a safe environment "in law and practice" for media professionals to do their important work.
The Council put out that call through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2222 (2015) early in a meeting that heard from nearly 70speakers under the agenda item "Protection of civilians in armed conflict" and was chaired by Lithuania's Foreign Minister, with briefings by the Deputy Secretary General, as well as by the Director General of Reporters Without Borders and Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002.
Through the resolution, the Council expressed deep concern at the growing threat to journalists and associated media personnel, including killings, kidnapping and hostage taking by terrorist groups. According to a concept note prepared by the Lithuanian presidency for the meeting (document S/2015/307), 61journalists were killed in 2014 and 221were imprisoned. The growing flagrancy of abuses was exemplified by the beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS). The note said that little progress has been made in van cleef inspired clover necklace fake addressing those crimes. Today's resolution urged Member States to take active steps to ensure accountability.
Through the text, the Council affirmed that journalists and associated professionals were civilians providing they took no actions adversely affecting that status and emphasized that all international human rights law protecting civilians during conflict applied to them, as well as did the more focused Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions. It also affirmed the importance of a free and impartial media for the protection of civilians.
The Council reiterated its demand, in that light, that all parties in situations of armed conflict comply fully with international law on protection of non combatants and do their utmost to prevent violations against them. Reiterating the primary responsibility of States in that endeavour and in safeguarding the right of free expression "online as well as offline" it condemned, however, the use of the media to incite violence.
Encouraging the United Nations and regional organizations to strengthen coordination on the protection of journalists, the Council affirmed that United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions, where appropriate, should include reporting on abuses against media workers. The Council requested the Secretary General to include a sub item on the topic in his reports on protection of civilians.
"It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said as he opened the meeting, just prior to the adoption of the resolution. He described the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity that aimed to tackle the challenges and was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan.
Security Council members, he said, could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based journalists, and remain closely focused on protection of media workers.
Christophe Deloire, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, welcomed the new resolution, but called on the Secretary General to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments under the text and under previous resolution 1738 (2006).
"The future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," Mariane Pearl said, stressing the importance of real journalism to modern society and emphasizing that it was not only terrorists that threatened journalists; it was also States who repressed them for counter terrorism, for hiding corruption and other purposes. In that context, she welcomed the Action Plan and today's resolution, but she called for further warnings to States not to use national security to intimidate journalists.
After those presentations, subsequent speakers further elaborated upon the dangers faced by journalists and other media workers, welcoming the adoption of the resolution and calling for its implementation on the ground. Many related the cases of individual journalists who had been killed or persecuted either by extremists or Governments. Some warned that violence against journalists was often a precursor to widespread human rights violations.
Most speakers did not attempt to define journalism, though many urged journalists to retain an impartial stance in their reporting. The representative of the Russian Federation, however, said including all Internet users as journalists would not help the cause of media freedom, and Venezuela's representative urged a distinction between journalism and corporate media.
JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said: "This issue is fundamentally about the right to information, about protection of civilians, about respect for human rights and about not giving in to threats and intimidation from those who advocate and practice violence and intolerance." Noting the spike in crimes against journalists, he said that some 95per cent of those killed were locally based and received less media coverage. He cited findings that illustrate the extent of the problem "from South Sudan to Libya, from Syria to Somalia and beyond".
It was precisely in conflict situations where the voices of the voiceless and reports from the front lines must be heard loud and clear, he said. Ensuring the safety of journalists required a multifaceted approach that took account of the conditions in each conflict area and the different threats to a variety of journalists, including foreign correspondents, locally based reporters and women journalists. Corruption, intimidation, reprisals and weak judicial systems must be tackled, and a culture of respect for human rights and the rule of law must be built. In that light, the safety of journalists in non conflict zones was of concern as well. Threats and attacks were committed by both State and non State actors, often to silence information on human rights violations or other off limits subjects.
The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity aimed to tackle those challenges, he said. The Plan was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan among other countries. Security Council members could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based ones. He pledged that the United Nations system would continue to assist the Council in all such efforts. "It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," he concluded.
CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, said 66journalists had been killed around the world last year while doing their job, with 25such deaths reported so far this year. That showed that resolution 1738, adopted in 2006, was insufficient in addressing the problem of lack of safety of journalists. The draft text linked the right of freedom of expression to article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a link that did not put one category of people above others but committed to defending the freedom of all.
A new Council resolution would not in and of itself be enough, he conceded, stressing that it provided the basis for further action. The Secretary General needed to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments. The envoy's mandate could be modelled after that of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and provide an early warning system for the Secretary General. The special representative should maintain contacts with other organizations and institutions, undertake inquiries where States refused to do so, and be empowered to initiate legal action.
More than 90per cent of crimes against journalists went unpunished and unprosecuted, which, he said, served almost as an incentive for attacks. Welcoming the new resolution's mention of the International Criminal Court, he cited Iraq and Syria as "black holes", where lack of free reporting led to wider tragedies. Since those two countries were not State parties to the Rome Statute, the Council should refer them to the Court, demonstrating unity of purpose.
Welcoming the resolution's language calling for protection of both online and offline journalists, he said the profession should not be defined by a contractual obligation, but should be done so within its social functions. The globalization of threats had manifested itself in the world of the media, he said, stressing that most journalists were killed under supposedly peaceful regimes. Stating that 150journalists and 170non professionals were languishing in prison simply for doing their job, he stressed the need butterfly van cleef necklace copy for a mix between common aspirations and divergent interests for the sake of peace.
MARIANE PEARL, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said that "The Future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," adding that "journalists everywhere are those single, determined individuals who increasingly are bearing the weight of our democracies on their own". Calling the present "a troubled time for our profession", she stressed that intellectual and moral courage was needed to inspire others and to defeat oppression. "Somewhere along the wars we, journalists, have lost the old, unspoken agreement that we were a neutral and fair profession." As a result, danger has increased and all were forced to wonder what kind of journalism is exactly worth dying for.
True courage was needed to go beyond the obvious, to fight preconceived ideas, to battle corruption and greed, she said. Unfortunately the confusion in journalism was great, including a search for economic models to compete with the Internet. Some ran after breaking news just to break the news; others were walking on the shaky ground between proper journalism and entertainment news. She was focused, however, on those journalists who had the courage to embrace the complexity of the world, the courage to honour the truth no matter how unpleasant or contrary to what the majority thought and to make the world aware of atrocities.
Terrorists were seeking to destroy dialogue and bonds between people, she said, and worked to create their own narrative that labelled people. They killed journalists, humanitarian workers, Americans, Jews, those they called infidels and so on in the hope of dispiriting those who identify with their victims. To create a counter narrative, journalists must destroy the base on which terrorists operate: hatred. In her case, that translated into 13years of a daily struggle to oppose hatred with empathy, violence with compassion and ignorance with education. However, it was not easy as terrorists were making news out of the killing of journalists, and many reporters in conflict zones were vulnerable freelancers and women.
In addition, terrorist groups were only a small part of the problem, she said. Nearly 60 per cent of journalists jailed around the world were imprisoned on anti State charges. Impunity for killing journalists was endemic. Mass surveillance by some Council members put journalists and their sources at risk and an increasing number of countries were now using anti terrorism laws to muzzle the press even further. Journalists continued to do valuable work, despite the threats, because they felt it was necessary. "I don't want to go back to Chechnya, but if I don't who will?", she quoted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya as saying sometime before she was murdered in front of her home in 2006.
The neutral space in which journalists could operate as independent witnesses was shrinking, she said, partly because Governments and terrorist groups alike could bypass those reporters and put their own controlled messages directly on line. That furthered skewed the information available for decision making. She noted that, with more than 25journalists already murdered this year, Member States had agreed on an Action Plan, but concerted efforts were butterfly van cleef necklace imitation needed on the ground to implement it. The Council must warn States that they should not use national security as an excuse to jail, harass or censor journalists. A statement or resolution addressing the threats journalists faced in that context would be an important sign of commitment to fight the scourge. She expressed hope that the moral courage exemplified by ordinary people such as journalists would inspire further action.
Strongly condemning impunity for attacks on journalists, which had greatly increased globally, the Security Council, during an all day open debate today, called on parties to conflict and all Member States to create a safe environment "in law and practice" for media professionals to do their important work.
The Council put out that call through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2222 (2015) early in a meeting that heard from nearly 70speakers under the agenda item "Protection of civilians in armed conflict" and was chaired by Lithuania's Foreign Minister, with briefings by the Deputy Secretary General, as well as by the Director General of Reporters Without Borders and Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in early 2002.
Through the resolution, the Council expressed deep concern at the growing threat to journalists and associated media personnel, including killings, kidnapping and hostage taking by terrorist groups. According to a concept note prepared by the Lithuanian presidency for the meeting (document S/2015/307), 61journalists were killed in 2014 and 221were imprisoned. The growing flagrancy of abuses was exemplified by the beheadings by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Sham (ISIL/ISIS). The note said that little progress has been made in van cleef inspired clover necklace fake addressing those crimes. Today's resolution urged Member States to take active steps to ensure accountability.
Through the text, the Council affirmed that journalists and associated professionals were civilians providing they took no actions adversely affecting that status and emphasized that all international human rights law protecting civilians during conflict applied to them, as well as did the more focused Additional Protocol of the Geneva Conventions. It also affirmed the importance of a free and impartial media for the protection of civilians.
The Council reiterated its demand, in that light, that all parties in situations of armed conflict comply fully with international law on protection of non combatants and do their utmost to prevent violations against them. Reiterating the primary responsibility of States in that endeavour and in safeguarding the right of free expression "online as well as offline" it condemned, however, the use of the media to incite violence.
Encouraging the United Nations and regional organizations to strengthen coordination on the protection of journalists, the Council affirmed that United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions, where appropriate, should include reporting on abuses against media workers. The Council requested the Secretary General to include a sub item on the topic in his reports on protection of civilians.
"It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson said as he opened the meeting, just prior to the adoption of the resolution. He described the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity that aimed to tackle the challenges and was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan.
Security Council members, he said, could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based journalists, and remain closely focused on protection of media workers.
Christophe Deloire, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, welcomed the new resolution, but called on the Secretary General to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments under the text and under previous resolution 1738 (2006).
"The future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," Mariane Pearl said, stressing the importance of real journalism to modern society and emphasizing that it was not only terrorists that threatened journalists; it was also States who repressed them for counter terrorism, for hiding corruption and other purposes. In that context, she welcomed the Action Plan and today's resolution, but she called for further warnings to States not to use national security to intimidate journalists.
After those presentations, subsequent speakers further elaborated upon the dangers faced by journalists and other media workers, welcoming the adoption of the resolution and calling for its implementation on the ground. Many related the cases of individual journalists who had been killed or persecuted either by extremists or Governments. Some warned that violence against journalists was often a precursor to widespread human rights violations.
Most speakers did not attempt to define journalism, though many urged journalists to retain an impartial stance in their reporting. The representative of the Russian Federation, however, said including all Internet users as journalists would not help the cause of media freedom, and Venezuela's representative urged a distinction between journalism and corporate media.
JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said: "This issue is fundamentally about the right to information, about protection of civilians, about respect for human rights and about not giving in to threats and intimidation from those who advocate and practice violence and intolerance." Noting the spike in crimes against journalists, he said that some 95per cent of those killed were locally based and received less media coverage. He cited findings that illustrate the extent of the problem "from South Sudan to Libya, from Syria to Somalia and beyond".
It was precisely in conflict situations where the voices of the voiceless and reports from the front lines must be heard loud and clear, he said. Ensuring the safety of journalists required a multifaceted approach that took account of the conditions in each conflict area and the different threats to a variety of journalists, including foreign correspondents, locally based reporters and women journalists. Corruption, intimidation, reprisals and weak judicial systems must be tackled, and a culture of respect for human rights and the rule of law must be built. In that light, the safety of journalists in non conflict zones was of concern as well. Threats and attacks were committed by both State and non State actors, often to silence information on human rights violations or other off limits subjects.
The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity aimed to tackle those challenges, he said. The Plan was being piloted in Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan and South Sudan among other countries. Security Council members could support the Plan by endorsing it and unequivocally and consistently condemning all killings of journalists in conflict situations, including locally based ones. He pledged that the United Nations system would continue to assist the Council in all such efforts. "It is our shared responsibility to protect the voices that alert, warn and inform on situations threatening international peace and security," he concluded.
CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, said 66journalists had been killed around the world last year while doing their job, with 25such deaths reported so far this year. That showed that resolution 1738, adopted in 2006, was insufficient in addressing the problem of lack of safety of journalists. The draft text linked the right of freedom of expression to article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a link that did not put one category of people above others but committed to defending the freedom of all.
A new Council resolution would not in and of itself be enough, he conceded, stressing that it provided the basis for further action. The Secretary General needed to appoint a special representative on the protection of journalists to ensure that Member States abided by their commitments. The envoy's mandate could be modelled after that of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and provide an early warning system for the Secretary General. The special representative should maintain contacts with other organizations and institutions, undertake inquiries where States refused to do so, and be empowered to initiate legal action.
More than 90per cent of crimes against journalists went unpunished and unprosecuted, which, he said, served almost as an incentive for attacks. Welcoming the new resolution's mention of the International Criminal Court, he cited Iraq and Syria as "black holes", where lack of free reporting led to wider tragedies. Since those two countries were not State parties to the Rome Statute, the Council should refer them to the Court, demonstrating unity of purpose.
Welcoming the resolution's language calling for protection of both online and offline journalists, he said the profession should not be defined by a contractual obligation, but should be done so within its social functions. The globalization of threats had manifested itself in the world of the media, he said, stressing that most journalists were killed under supposedly peaceful regimes. Stating that 150journalists and 170non professionals were languishing in prison simply for doing their job, he stressed the need butterfly van cleef necklace copy for a mix between common aspirations and divergent interests for the sake of peace.
MARIANE PEARL, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said that "The Future depends on the depth and intensity of the vow embraced by people today," adding that "journalists everywhere are those single, determined individuals who increasingly are bearing the weight of our democracies on their own". Calling the present "a troubled time for our profession", she stressed that intellectual and moral courage was needed to inspire others and to defeat oppression. "Somewhere along the wars we, journalists, have lost the old, unspoken agreement that we were a neutral and fair profession." As a result, danger has increased and all were forced to wonder what kind of journalism is exactly worth dying for.
True courage was needed to go beyond the obvious, to fight preconceived ideas, to battle corruption and greed, she said. Unfortunately the confusion in journalism was great, including a search for economic models to compete with the Internet. Some ran after breaking news just to break the news; others were walking on the shaky ground between proper journalism and entertainment news. She was focused, however, on those journalists who had the courage to embrace the complexity of the world, the courage to honour the truth no matter how unpleasant or contrary to what the majority thought and to make the world aware of atrocities.
Terrorists were seeking to destroy dialogue and bonds between people, she said, and worked to create their own narrative that labelled people. They killed journalists, humanitarian workers, Americans, Jews, those they called infidels and so on in the hope of dispiriting those who identify with their victims. To create a counter narrative, journalists must destroy the base on which terrorists operate: hatred. In her case, that translated into 13years of a daily struggle to oppose hatred with empathy, violence with compassion and ignorance with education. However, it was not easy as terrorists were making news out of the killing of journalists, and many reporters in conflict zones were vulnerable freelancers and women.
In addition, terrorist groups were only a small part of the problem, she said. Nearly 60 per cent of journalists jailed around the world were imprisoned on anti State charges. Impunity for killing journalists was endemic. Mass surveillance by some Council members put journalists and their sources at risk and an increasing number of countries were now using anti terrorism laws to muzzle the press even further. Journalists continued to do valuable work, despite the threats, because they felt it was necessary. "I don't want to go back to Chechnya, but if I don't who will?", she quoted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya as saying sometime before she was murdered in front of her home in 2006.
The neutral space in which journalists could operate as independent witnesses was shrinking, she said, partly because Governments and terrorist groups alike could bypass those reporters and put their own controlled messages directly on line. That furthered skewed the information available for decision making. She noted that, with more than 25journalists already murdered this year, Member States had agreed on an Action Plan, but concerted efforts were butterfly van cleef necklace imitation needed on the ground to implement it. The Council must warn States that they should not use national security as an excuse to jail, harass or censor journalists. A statement or resolution addressing the threats journalists faced in that context would be an important sign of commitment to fight the scourge. She expressed hope that the moral courage exemplified by ordinary people such as journalists would inspire further action.
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