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Page 1: Opening montage clip. THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY Safety of Journalists

opening montage clip

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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

Safety of Journalists

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

Who can help you?

What risks do you face?

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Safety of Journalists Close to the story - a risky business

"If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren't close enough…"

Robert Capa, photojournalist

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Safety of Journalists Close to the story - a risky business

RISKS:• targeted• taken as hostage• arrested/detained/tortured• disappeared• harassed

"These are nightmarish times for those working in the news media… Journalists are being killed at an uneccaptable and unprecedented rate."

Christopher Cramer, former war correspondent, president of CNN international

networks, honorary president of INSI

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

TARGETED – RECENT EXAMPLE: ….

• journalists are civilians: cannot be targeted/attacked→ if violated: war crime

• exceptions: • military press (journalist is a combatant)• if journalist takes direct part in hostilities

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

TAKEN AS A HOSTAGERECENT EXAMPLE: ….

• (…..)

 → if violated: war crime

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

ARRESTED / DETAINED RECENT EXAMPLE: ….

• possible: a) related to the armed conflict, ORb) for security purposes

• release at the end of hostilities or when security reason no longer exists

TORTURED• humane treatment, with respect for dignity:

• prohibition of torture or humiliating and degrading treatment • in international armed conflicts: military press members and war

correspondents: protection of prisoners of war

 → if violated: war crime

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

DISAPPEARRECENT EXAMPLE: ….

• human rights law: enforced disappearance is prohibited

• humanitarian law: all parties to the conflict must take all feasible measures to account for persons reported missing as a result of armed conflict and must provide their family members with any information it has on their fate

 → if violated: …..

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?

CASE STUDYBelgrade Radio and

Television station after NATO attack,

1999(or bombardment of the

Palestine Hotel in Baghdad in 2003 OR the the Arab Al-Jazeera TV network in Kabul

in 2002)

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Safety of Journalists

Who can help you?In trouble:

• Reporters Without Borders: SOS Press Hotline +33 1 4777 7414• ICRC Hotline for Journalists: +41 79 217 32 85

To prepare for missions:

• trainings• Reporters Without Borders with French and Belgian Red Cross (safety, stress management, humanitarian law)• ICRC (humanitarian law)• National Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies (first-aid)

• readings• Committee to Protect Journalists – “On Assignment – Covering Conflicts Safely"•Reporters Without Borders –

"Charter for the Safety of Journalists" "Handbook for Journalists"

• ICRC – „Staying Alive”

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Safety of Journalists

How can the law protect you?OPTIONAL

Situations of violence other than armed conflicts

• Domestic law

• Human Rights Law– universal– regional– "soft-law" (incl. UNESCO Medellin Declaration)