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@unesco:
IMPUNITY BREEDS IMPUNITY. This is injustice for all.
Since 2006, UNESCO has condemned the killing of more than 800 journalists. Less than 8% of these crimes committed have been solved.
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly affects all indirectly.” Impunity is a crime against the exercise of freedom of expression and human rights more broadly. It emboldens the perpetrators of crimes, it threatens the rule of law, and it leads to fear and self-censorship. All society suffers.
More than ever, we must do everything to protect journalists and fight against impunity. We need to deepen efforts to prevent violence against journalists, to enhance the protection of journalists in danger, and to prosecute perpetrators of attacks.
We encourage everyone to stand with UNESCO in condemning every fatal attac...