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Communiqué Vol 18, No 50

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Americas

IAPA spearheads impunity project; journalists targeted across the region

Newspaper readers across the Americas are invited to join the Inter American Press Association (IAPA)'s campaign to demand justice in the cases of murdered journalists. A growing list of newspapers is participating in this online banner campaign to focus attention on killings that go unpunished in the region. Just this past week, several journalists and their families have been fatally targeted in three countries.

Turkey

Editor killed; reporter on trial

A Turkish editor was gunned down last week after leaving his office, report the IPS Communication Foundation (BIANET) and the International Press Institute (IPI). The editor had already received several death threats related to his coverage of local corruption.

Libya

Human Rights Watch holds historical rights review

Human Rights Watch held an unprecedented news conference in Libya on 12 December, releasing a hard-hitting report calling on Libyan authorities to abolish laws that criminalise speech and association, to free those unjustly imprisoned and to provide justice for victims of a 1996 prison massacre. The report acknowledges that freedom of expression has improved in the last five years, but more reform is needed.

Africa

MISA and UNDP spearhead journalism training in South Africa

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) coordinated a three-day training session on "Investigating and Reporting Corruption" in Johannesburg, South Africa in early December. The objective was to strengthen the media's ability to undertake investigative reporting on corruption. The training brought together participants from Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola.

Iraq

Journalistic Freedoms Observatory honours Iraqis covering corruption

The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) has honoured four Iraqi journalists with its Press Courage Award in order to support freedom of expression.

Egypt

CIHRS seeks International Advocacy Researcher

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is looking for an International Advocacy Researcher to start immediately in its Cairo office.