International News Safety Institute update: June 2012
June 27, 2012 3 Comments
The UN Special Rapporteur Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns, said that journalists should be given special protection because of rising levels of impunity at a conference in Geneva this month (UN)
• INSI has recorded the deaths of 73 journalists and media staff in the first half of 2012, with a further 23 cases under investigation. In June, a number of conferences, talks and debates were held around the world to explore ways to improve the safety of journalists.
