Ending Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

Panel Discussions on the United Nations international day to end of impunity for crimes against journalists. 

The National Union of Journalists London Freelance Branch is partnering with King’s College London Global Digital Cultures Research Group and King’s College London Universities and Colleges Union branch to hold a symposium to mark the UN Day to end Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

We will be hearing from John McDonnell MP; broadcaster Sangita Myska; Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London; Tayab Ali, of Bindman’s solicitors; Ali Rocha, journalist and human-rights activist, focusing on state violence in Brazil; Dr Moosa Qureshi of Health Workers 4 Palestine  - for what promises to be an in-depth examination of how to protect the messenger.  

UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – states that “ending impunity for crimes against journalists is an essential precondition to guarantee freedom of expression and access to information for all.” The unprecedented number of journalists slaughtered in the Gaza genocide gives this new urgency. As UNESCO continues: “journalists, media professionals, and associated media personnel exercise their duties in highly dangerous contexts. Too many pay an unacceptably high price, including death, enforced disappearance, torture, unlawful detention, and kidnapping, for producing independent, reliable, and verifiable information. Whether reporting on conflict, humanitarian disasters, climate or health crises, journalists continue to face disproportionate threats and higher levels of impunity for extrajudicial killings, torture, en-forced disappearances and arbitrary detention, as well as intimidation and harassment, both offline and online.”

We invite journalists and students to join us from 14:00 to 17.00 at the Nash Lecture Theatre on the Strand Campus at King’s College London.