{"id":4345,"date":"2019-03-14T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:35:45","slug":"informing-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/?p=4345","title":{"rendered":"Informing is not a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Int-Day-to-End-Impunity-for-Crimes-against-Journalists-Antonio-Guterres-UN-Secretary-General-720p.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>UN chief calls for better protection of journalists, press freedom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paying tribute to reporters around the world who \u201cput their lives on the line\u201d to tell important stories, UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres lamented on Monday that freedom of the press was increasingly \u201cshrinking\u201d worldwide, and called on decision-makers to better protect journalists and media workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way towards realizing freedom of expression, and other fundamental freedoms. The right to access to information is entrenched in law in over a hundred countries,\u201d said Secretary-General Guterres during the event, which marked the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Association of UN Correspondents (ACANU). \u201cBut despite these advances, in recent years, civic space has been shrinking worldwide at an alarming rate\u201d, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In just over a decade, more than 1,000 journalists have been killed while carrying out their work. In nine out of 10 cases, no one was held accountable. Last year alone, the UN agency advocating for freedom of the press, UNESCO, reported that at least 99 journalists were killed and thousands more were attacked, harassed, detained or imprisoned on spurious charges, without due process. Women journalists are often at greater risk of being targeted, including through online threats of sexual violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary-General stressed that the vast majority of those detained and attacked are local journalists working in their own countries and communities, and that \u201cmost of the journalists and media workers killed, injured and detained were covering politics, crime, corruption and human rights,\u201d not conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calling this state of affairs \u201coutrageous,\u201d the UN chief stated that \u201cwhen journalists are targeted, societies as a whole pay a price\u201d as \u201cno democracy is complete without press freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJournalism and the media are essential to peace, justice, sustainable development and human rights for all \u2013 and to the work of the United Nations,\u201d he noted, paying tribute to reporters who \u201cgo to the most dangerous places on earth, to bring us important information, to give a voice to people who are being ignored and abused, and to hold the powerful to account\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/02\/1033552?utm_source=UNESCO&amp;utm_campaign=97e6700d16-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_12_09_29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_898ed31396-97e6700d16-442379393&amp;mc_cid=97e6700d16&amp;mc_eid=0a4035b5a3\">MORE on the UN News site!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying tribute to reporters around the world who \u201cput their lives on the line\u201d to tell important stories, UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres lamented on Monday that freedom of the press was increasingly \u201cshrinking\u201d worldwide, and called on decision-makers to better protect journalists and media workers. \u201cWe\u2019ve come a long way <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/?p=4345\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12139,"featured_media":4347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,100,3,99,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-from-our-partners","category-media-lab","category-milclicks","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediaeducationcentre.eu\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}