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STORY: UN / CRIMES AGAINST JOURNALISTS
TRT: 01:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 02 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Aerial shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
02 NOVEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting in progress
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Boura, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN:
“The growing number of journalists and media workers killed, and their increased targeting, has become an alarming trend in the past few years.”
4. Wide shot, meeting in progress
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Boura, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN:
“One in ten cases involving the killing of journalists is resolved, which, in fact, equals to complete impunity for perpetrators.”
6. Pan right-to-left, delegates listening to remarks
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Boura, Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN:
“Impunity doesn’t thrive only in situations of armed conflict, but also where there is a lack of political commitment. States should be ready not only to condemn but also to put the existing mechanisms into practice.”
8. Wide shot, meeting in progress
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raimonda Murmokaite, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN:
“Journalists pay for our right to know with their safety and their lives, even in peace times across a number of countries around the world, for nothing challenges abusive regimes more than the right to know, the right to speak out.”
10. Wide shot, meeting in progress
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Raimonda Murmokaite, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN:
“Such lack of accountability reads like a license to kill, because those who commit crimes against journalists, are very much certain they can get away with murder.”
12. Wide shot, meeting in progress
Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United Nations officials honoured today (02 Nov) journalists and media workers who were killed in the line of duty.
During a meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York to address the growing need to protect journalists and to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against them, the Greek Ambassador to the UN, Catherine Boura, said the growing number of media workers killed had “become an alarming trend in the past few years.”
Boura said that “one in ten cases involving the killing of journalists is resolved, which, in fact, equals to complete impunity for perpetrators,” and called for states to be ready “not only to condemn but also to put the existing mechanisms into practice.”
The Lithuanian Ambassador to the UN, Raimonda Murmokaite, said that journalists paid with their lives “for our right to know” as they challenged abusive regimes by exercising “the right to know, the right to speak out.”
Murmokaite, however, said that not enough crimes against journalists were resolved or fully investigated.
The Ambassador said that such lack of accountability “reads like a license to kill, because those who commit crimes against journalists, are very much certain they can get away with murder.”
The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly to highlight the urgent need to protect journalists, and to commemorate the assassination of two French reporters in Mali on 2 November, 2013.
