This month INSI ran its first safety training project for female journalists in Cairo. ‘No Woman’s Land’, INSI’s unprecedented publication about the safety of women journalists, had its genesis in the horrendous attack on the CBS journalist Lara Logan last year and she provided the foreword for our book. (INSI)
• INSI has recorded the deaths of 77 journalists and media staff this year, with a further 28 cases under investigation.
Syria continues to be the deadliest country for journalists and media workers – at least 19 news media casualties have been recorded since the start of 2012. Many more have been injured, detained and threatened.
INSI has been working with its members, who include some of the world’s leading media organisations, to share and collate information that might impact on the safety of journalists and news crews covering the events there.
The situation in Syria is extremely volatile and INSI urges all journalists covering Syria to read our safety advisory.
Those who would like more information or to speak confidentially should contact Hannah Storm +44 7766 814274 hannah.storm@newssafety.org
• INSI Director Rodney Pinder visited Brazil for the 7th annual Congress of Abraji, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalists, and to check arrangements for more INSI safety training in the country.
Abraji is the second biggest association of investigative journalists in the world with 3,000 members, and this year’s event attracted more than 800 delegates, many of them concerned at the deteriorating security situation confronting journalists in Brazil.
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The war may be over in Sri Lanka, but it is still not safe for journalists there
September 19, 2012 7 Comments
By Frances Harrison
A Sri Lankan journalist reads the final report of Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2011. The government-appointed war commission concluded that Sri Lanka’s military did not intentionally target civilians in the final stages of the country’s civil war and that ethnic rebels routinely violated international humanitarian law. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
I recently received a heartbreaking email saying a Sri Lankan journalist, his wife and nine year old child had spent the night with all their suitcases on a bench in a park in Paris. He’d been thrown out of the house where he was been staying, after losing his part time job washing dishes in a restaurant. It was difficult to organise emergency help because media organisations were shut over the weekend and his mobile phone was often switched off to preserve the credit.
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