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Haiti

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On World Press Freedom Day, AMARC asserts communication rights of disaster-hit communities

Community radio stations played a vital role in disaster recovery and reconstruction after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.

Media slowly resurfacing, operations centre approaching three-month mark

Twenty-five of Port-au-Prince's approximately 50 radio stations were able to resume broadcasting during the month after the earthquake, while others took longer and many are operating from makeshift studios.

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From the Communiqué

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Survivors exhausted and traumatised; media crippled

Not only did the devastating earthquake on 12 January in Haiti leave survivors with no food, no water, no shelter and no place to bury the dead, but it also left them with little or no information, report IFEX members. The media have also suffered great losses at a time when people urgently need aid information.

RUSSIA AND HAITI INTENSIFY FIGHT AGAINST IMPUNITY BY CONVICTING JOURNALISTS' KILLERS

Five gang members have been convicted in Russia for the murder of journalist Igor Domnikov, the first time suspects have been prosecuted in a journalist's killing since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In Haiti, two life sentences were handed down to the murderers of journalist Jacques Roche, according to Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF).

COMMISSION LAUNCHED TO INVESTIGATE JOURNALIST MURDERS

An independent committee will be set up to investigate the unsolved murders of journalists in Haiti, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports.

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Reports

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Human Rights Watch report underlines importance of investigating grave human rights violations

In one case, over 100 journalists and activists were arrested on November 28, 1980. Several were tortured and many were expelled from the country.

IAPA special report shows slow recovery of press

At its biannual meeting, the IAPA presented a report detailing the impact of the January 12 earthquake on the press.


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