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  1. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  2. Aktion T4
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder through involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.
  3. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  4. Another journalist murdered a month before general elections
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The bullet-riddled body of Manuel Murillo Varela, a young freelance cameraman, was found in Tegucigalpa yesterday, exactly four months after journalist Anibal Barrow’s abduction and murder.
  5. Another journalist murdered in Honduras, no end to violence in sight
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that community radio journalist Hernán Cruz Barnica was murdered near Dulce Nombre, a town in the western department of Copán, on the evening of 28 May.
  6. Another peace activist, Raza Khan, goes missing in Lahore
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Raza Mahmood Khan, a Peace activist and social worker, went "missing" in Lahore on Dec. 2, 2017, shortly after he had organised a public discussion about a recent demonstration that ended in ignominious surrender to those seeking power in the guise of religion.
  7. Asesinato de dos periodistas en Guatemala y Honduras. La FEPALC y la FIP expresan su total consternacion
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    La FederaciA#n Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) y la FederaciA#n de Periodistas de AmA#rica Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) expresan su consternaciA#n absoluta ante el asesinato, en menos de 48 horas de dos periodistas centroamericanos.
  8. Atheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
  9. Australian media outraged by failure of justice to Balibo Five
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists joins the Australian Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance in condemning and expressing strong outrage over the Australian Federal Police (AFP abandoning their war crimes investigation into the murder
  10. Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justify one form of extrajudicial killing while demonizing the murders that ISIS commits.
  11. Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A federal jury in Washington, D.C., returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives charged with killing more than a dozen Iraqi civilians and wounding scores of others in Baghdad in 2007.
  12. Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
  13. Brazilian deaths highlights need for safety training
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The dangers that journalists face is Brazil is old news. The most recent deaths of two reporters have once again shown the sire situation for media workers in the South American country.
  14. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
  15. Call Me Kuchu
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.
  16. The Capital Punishment Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  17. Charleston Massacre Media Coverage: Recognizing the Crime, Downplaying the Causes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Dylann Roof is a white male who killed nine people; targeting African Americans. Elliot Rodger was a white male who killed six people; targeting women. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (The Boston Bomber) is a non-white male who killed three people; targeting Americans. According to the media, only one is a terrorist. Can you guess which? Why is that that the media is so hesitant to call some people terrorists when they clearly are?
  18. CMFR statement on the killings in Maguindanao
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The brutality and the sheer senselessness of the attack in Maguindanao represent a new low, even in the country's shameful record of violence. It calls for collective outrage and condemnation and the strongest demand for the immediate apprehension.
  19. Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
  20. Community radio host's 12-year-old son killed in shooting
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The son of radio La Calentana Mexiquense's founder and presenter, Indalecio Bentez Mondragon, was killed on the night of 1 August when masked gunmen fired on Benez's car at the entrance to the community radio station, located in his home
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  22. Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
  23. Death on Yonge Street
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    This city, which usually seems far too cynical and hurried to care very much about anything any more, has been deeply shocked and violently angered by the murder of the little shoe-shine boy, Emmanuel Jaques, on Yonge Street.
  24. Detained journalist murdered by Burmese Army
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the murder of missing journalist Aung Kyaw Naing by the Burmese Army earlier this month.
  25. Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
  26. Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
  27. Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
    Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
  28. Filipino journalist gunned down on way to work
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the murder of a Filipino journalist on the central island of Luzon.
  29. First Journalist Killed in 2014: IFJ Condemns Murder of Pakistan Journalist Shan Dahar
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists has called on authorities in Pakistan to carry out an immediate investigation into the murder of journalist Shan Dahar (Odhor) in the Badha area of the country's Larkana district.
  30. For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
  31. Forty years on: Balibo victims remembered with scholarship
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) today, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the killing of the Balibo Five in East Timor, with the establishment of a scholarship
  32. Fourth blogger on radical Islamist hit-list hacked to death
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Niloy Neel, a secularist blogger and activist who had been threatened by Islamist militants, was hacked to death today in his Dhaka home by five intruders armed with machetes.
  33. Getting Away With Murder 2009
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The already murderous conditions for the press in Sri Lanka and Pakistan deteriorated further in the past year, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index
  34. Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
  35. Guatemala: Murders of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The worst waves of brutal, unsolved murders of women in Latin America have been seen in Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, where close to 400 killings have been reported since 1993, and Guatemala, where 527 women were killed last year alone.
  36. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  37. Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  38. Honduras: Rule of law and civil liberties founder in year since coup
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Joint statement on the first anniversary of the 28 June 2009 coup d#état in Honduras.
  39. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
  40. How many more
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. Global Witness shines a spotlight on Honduras - the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender.
  41. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
  42. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
  43. IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n Laguna, who worked for La OpiniA#n.
  44. IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fair and independent investigation into the murder
  45. IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
  46. IFJ Condemns Killings of Media Staff in Shocking Attack on French Magazine Charlie Hebdo' Office in Paris
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined its French affiliates -- SNJ, SNJ-CGT and CFDT -- in condemning the shooting that has taken place today at the offices of the French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
  47. IFJ Condemns Murder of Turkish Editor
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists and its European regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the killing of Cihan Hayirsevener, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper engaged in exposing corruption in Turkey.
  48. IFJ Condemns Murders of Journalists in Mexico
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today said impunity which is fueling violence against journalists has reached intolerable levels in Mexico after two more journalists were murdered in a single day last week, bringing to 12 the number
  49. IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
  50. The IFJ condemns the brutal murder of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, from Veracruz
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Moises Sanchez Cerezo, editor of La Union, was found killed after 24 days without news of his whereabouts. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the Mexican authorities to solve all the responsibilities for the murder.
  51. IFJ Marks 'End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings.
  52. IFJ Marks Fifth Anniversary of Politkovskaya’s Murder with new Russian Database on Attacks on Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists and its affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya with the launch of its ‘Russia – Conflicts in the Media’ database.
  53. IFJ Marks Fourth Anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya Murder by Call for Justice
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today marked the fourth anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya by urging the Russian authorities to ensure justice for her and her long-suffering family and colleague
  54. IFJ & SEAJU call for investigation into journalist murder in Myanmar
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) in calling for a thorough investigation into the murder of a journalist detained by the Burmese Army in Myanmar early last month.
  55. Impunity and "Callous Indifference" Remain Threats as New Wave of Media Killings Wipes out Optimism
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on the killings of journalists in 2008 with a warning that 2009 could be the deadliest year yet for journalists.
  56. Investigative Journalist found beheaded in Minas Gerais
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A journalist who was investigating child prostitution and drug trafficking in Brazil has been found murdered.
  57. Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
  58. Journalist bashed to death in Andra Pradesh
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and it’s affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the brutal murder of a senior journalist in Guntur of Andra Pradesh, in south eastern India on early hours of Wednesday, November 26.
  59. Journalist’s Murder Underscores Impunity in the Philippines
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning the murder of dwEB-FM radio commentator Romeo Olea in Camarines Sur province on June 13.
  60. Justice long overdue in Anna Politkovskaya murder
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As the sixth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's brutal murder nears, the Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by the complete absence of justice in her killing despite government pledges to solve the crime.
  61. Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the links in a chain that stretches from the White House, through the drone command center in Nevada, to the skies of Helmand Province.
  62. The Kingdom of Matthias
    A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    In 1834 outside New York City, a cult centered around Matthias the Prophet was linked to theft, sexual relations, inferiority of women, and murder.
  63. Kurdish paper distributor gunned down in southeastern Turkey
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Kadri Bagdu's death follows a week of violent rioting sparked by fighting in a Kurdish city near the Syrian border
  64. The Mammoth and the Mouse
    Microhistory and Morphology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
  65. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  66. The mass graves of Kashmir
    India's dirty war unmasked
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
  67. Mastermind behind murder of human rights lawyer, journalist, sentenced to life in prison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the sentencing to life in prison today of a Russian nationalist leader in connection with the 2009 fatal attack on human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, in which Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova was also killed.
  68. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  69. Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango State
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning.
  70. Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
  71. Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
  72. Murderers of Paraguayan Journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez, Must Be Punished
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation has joined its regional group, the Federation of Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean (FEPALC), to express its deep shock at the murder of Paraguayan journalist, Pablo Medina Velasquez.
  73. Nepalese journalist and women's rights activist brutally murdered
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
  74. Newspaper editor gunned down on Benghazi street
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders condemns in the strongest terms newspaper editor Muftah Bu Zeid's murder in Benghazi. Gunmen in a car shot Zeid three times in the head and abdomen shortly after he got out of his own car.
  75. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
  76. 108 Journalists Killed in 2013 to Test UN Day to End Impunity
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued a desperate appeal for governments across the world to end impunity for violence against journalists and media staff after posting 108 killings for 2013.
  77. Online newspaper editor gunned down on Maputo street
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders is alarmed to learn that Paulo Machava, the well-known editor of the online Diario de Noticias newspaper, was gunned down on a Maputo street today against a backdrop of tension for media personnel in Mozambique.
  78. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
  79. Photojournalist slain in Mexico City after fleeing threats in Veracruz
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that photojournalist Rubén Espinosa Becerril has been found murdered in Mexico City, to which he fled in early June after receiving death threats in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
  80. Police Violence Against Native People
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmington, where white high school students had been known to sever the fingers of inebriated Navajo men and display them proudly in their lockers at school.
  81. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  82. Radio host's murder highlights dangers for journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened by radio journalist Joash Dignos' targeted killing in Valencia City, on the southern island of Mindanao.
  83. Religious extremists murder fourth blogger in Bangladesh
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly deplores the murder of Niladri Chattopadhyay on August 7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  84. Reporter gunned down three days after presidential license to kill
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the situation in South Sudan where President Salva Kiir, speaking at a news conference, threatened to have journalists murdered if they "work against their country" and where reporter Peter Moi was gunned dow
  85. Reporter shot and killed in Rawalpindi
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Pakistani authorities must not allow Thursday's shooting death of veteran Pakistani reporter Raja Assad Hameed in Rawalpindi go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
  86. Reporter shot dead while investigating illegal logging
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Cambodian journalist Taing Try was shot dead yesterday while investigating illegal logging in the southern province of Kratie with five other journalists. Three suspects have been arrested.
  87. Roll Call of Loss and Tragedy Continues, Says IFJ Report of Media staff Killed in 2010
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published the full report of journalists and media staff killed during 2010, saying that 94 media fatalities last year demonstrate the increasing risks facing journalists around the globe.
  88. Russia: Investigate Murder of Prominent Rights Lawyer
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Russian authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Stanislav Markelov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and bring his killers to justice, Human Rights Watch says.
  89. Self-censorship, exile or certain death: the choice faced by journalists in Ciudad JuA¡rez
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders and the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) are releasing the results of a joint fact-finding visit to the northern city of Ciudad JuA¡rez Chihuahua, that was prompted by the murder of Armando RodrA#guez CarreA#n
  90. Shock and Outrage at Murder of Senior Journalist in Mumbai
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked and outraged at the daylight murder of Jyotirmoy Dey, senior journalist and special investigations editor with the afternoon daily Midday, in the western Indian city of Mumbai.
  91. Shooting attacks on media personnel leave two dead, two wounded
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders is appalled by a spate of attacks on media personnel in Pakistan that has left two dead and two wounded in the past 24 hours.
  92. Somalia: Director of HornAfrik radio murdered in Mogadishu
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The director of Somalia's HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, has been shot dead in the capitalâ##s market district of Bakara. His murder comes 16 months after the radioâ##s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.
  93. Sri Lanka to reopen investigation into 2009 murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Wickrematunge, the founder and editor of The Sunday Leader, was assassinated in January 8, 2009. According to reports, the new Sri Lankan government decided to reopen the investigation.
  94. Support for lawsuit brought against Iranian government before Montreal court
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is supporting the lawsuit which Stephan Hashemi has brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran before a Montreal court in an bid to obtain reparation for the detention, torture and death of his mother, photo-journalist Zah
  95. They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
    Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
  96. 39 years on and still no justice for Balibo Five
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) expressing strong concern that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) hasn’t yet asked Indonesian authorities to help prosecute
  97. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
  98. TV presenter slaughtered in Bangladesh
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) deplore the slaughter murder of a television host in Dhaka on Wednesday night, August 27.
  99. Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.
  100. 2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media personnel killed during 2009.
  101. The Walk and the Kiss
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A book about a sensational murder trial that shook Toronto in the early 1940s. After two hung juries, a third produced a conviction of airforceman Bill Newell, for the murder of his wife on Toronto Island. Publishing originally as This Man Hanged Himself.
  102. What Does It Mean to Call Dylann Roof a 'Terrorist'?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It would have been unfathomable a year ago for the phrase "white terrorism" to be used by the mainstream media. This shift in discourse is just one effect of the post-Ferguson moment in which there is a halting national discussion of systemic racism. Terminology matters because changing ideological frames is part and parcel of changing policies, institutions, and structures.
  103. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
  104. With My Heart in Yambo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
  105. Woman journalist found with throat cut in southern Libya
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Naseeb Miloud Karfana, a TV journalist based in the southern city of Sabha, was murdered on 29 May.
  106. World condemns impunity while another Pakistan assassination takes toll to 14
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deplore the brutal assassination of a journalist in Sindh province yesterday and demand the immediate arrest and persecution of the
  107. A year after James Foley and Steven Sotloff murders, more awareness of risks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Journalists who regularly cover violence are considered a hard-boiled bunch. But a year ago this month, even the toughest were crying. There was no emotional body armour to deflect the horror of the beheading videos of freelancers James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and other Westerners held hostage in Syria by the self-styled Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS.

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