Resource
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Producer:
Committee to Protect Journalists - CPJ
Publication year:
2010
Source of the information:
Committee to Protect Journalists - CPJ
This is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or more unsolved cases are included on the index, a threshold reached by 12 countries this year.
Two countries immersed in conflict top the list. Iraq is at number one with 88 unsolved journalist murders, while Somalia is second, reflecting insurgents’ routine use of violence to control the news media. But many of the remaining countries on the index present themselves as democracies with functioning law enforcement, nations such as India, Russia, the Philippines, and Mexico. In addition, the report covers Sri Lanka, Colombia, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
