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  1. “Without that, no peace, worthy of the name, is possible, and it is the responsibility of Member States to establish this peace.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  2. “As I speak here before the members of the Council, more than 150 professional journalists and 170 non-professional journalists are in prison worldwide as a means to prevent them from pursuing their investigative work and reporting. They too must be protected. As long as they are behind bars, millions if not hundreds of millions of people are deprived of the fruits of their investigative reporting. It is the responsibility of the representatives of States to strike the balance between individuals and nations Accordingly, journalism's role is to depict the world as it is constituted by common aspirations and divergent interests. In giving a voice to everyone and portraying different angles, journalism gives us the ability to understand the other.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  3. “The Nobel Peace Price laureate in economics Amartya Sen has defined development as a process of expansion of substantial individual liberties. The freedom of information is one of the freedoms that favours the capabilities of an individual, in the sense of his mastery of the health system, the education system and the public debate - in a way, the sense of control over his life. If we want development not to be just about increasing wealth, but about improving all social, economic and political possibilities for individuals, then the freedom of information is a prerequisite. Accordingly, the protection of journalism depends upon this last condition.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  4. “That the Security Council is about to adopt a draft resolution on the protection of journalists in areas of armed conflict is a positive sign. But let us not forget that most journalists killed during or because of carrying out their duties are in countries said to be at peace in which persons in the pay of regimes, women and men of power, mafia linchpins and so on are perpetrating the worst abuses. We should not forget that half of the world's population has no access to free information, much less the right thereto, or are deprived of independent information because those who embody the freedom ofinformation and persecuted and prevented from doing their work. One day the Security Council will have to take that into account. One day the Council will have to assign obligations to States above and beyond situations of armed conflict.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  5. “But if the search for the facts is conducted on the basis of that dictum and is not sponsored by interested parties and avoids seeing things through the prism of culture as much as possible - that is journalism. We are witnessing a sort of globalization of threats. Responsibility for massacres such as the one carried out at the offices of Charlie Hebdo are claimed, rightly or wrongly, from thousands of kilometres away. Murderous ideologies and propaganda machines are aimed against all those who report on dangerous reality, so as to intimidate into silencejournalists and all those who embody and are living the freedom of expression, even on the other end of the world. That is the case in times of war, but it is also the case in peacetime.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  6. “Thanks to new technologies, terrorist groups, like all enemies of factual truths, can directly distribute their content around the world. Everything gets through: the barbarian propaganda film disguised as reportage, including sometimes journalists taken hostage, with a gun to their head, as well as truncated reality dressed up as a description of actuality. Humankind and society need a trusted third party that makes collective and individual choices based on the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, in the words of UNESCO's Constitution. Of course, that assertion cannot be accepted without an understanding that this truth can take different shapes and sometimes contradictory results, as no one is the holder of truth.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  7. “The United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, adopted under the auspices of UNESCO in 2012, recognizes that the protection of journalists should not be limited to those officially recognized as such but also benefit other people, including community media workers and citizen journalists and others who use new media to reach their audiences. Technology opens up spaces of freedom, for information and for expression in general; but there can be manipulation just as much as probity. Unfortunately, we are entering a new era of propaganda where completely new ways of controlling information - and therefore of controlling thoughts - are being put in place. We are entering a period of information wars.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  8. “The draft resolution that the Council is preparing to adopt deals with journalists, media professionals and associated personnel. In a welcome act, it mentions freedom of information online and offline. But it should explicitly extend the scope to all journalists worthy of the name. Journalism cannot be defined by a contractual relationship with a big media company. It has to do with a social function of collecting information methodically in accordance with the rules of honesty and independence. Whehter ones performs that function professionally or not is not important.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  9. “Since the summer of 2014 at least threejournalists have been killed, 15 of them since the beginning of the 2013. A large number have been victims of kidnapping, arbitrary detention and hostage-taking. As Syria and Iraq are not States parties to Rome Statute, it is urgent that the Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, refer to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court the situations in Syria and Iraq where war crimes have been committed against journalists. Member States of the Security Council must show consistency when it comes to its resolutions on protecting journalists and launch a concrete process aimed at bringing perpetrators of crimes against journalists to justice at the international level.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  10. “But elsewhere? In Syria and Iraq, in the area under the control of the Islamic State, an information black hole has formed. In the same way that in the physical world light does not escape black holes, journalists are no longer able to report on reports or to deliver information in those areas. The conflict in Syria began in 2011, and then spread to Iraq in the summer of 2014. It has caused the deaths of more than 210,000 civilians. Kidnapped, murdered and beheaded - journalists in Syria and Iraq are deliberately targeted and attacked by various parties to the conflict. According to statistics compiled by Reporters Without Borders, in Syria alone over the past four years, at least 45 journalists were killed in the course or because of carrying doing theirjobs.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  11. “Reporters Without Borders believes that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Libya should establish an independent investigation to shed light on the murder of those journalists. We are very pleased that the new draft resolution mentions the role of the International Criminal Court in the prosecution and trial of the perpetrators of war crimes. As said here during an Arria Formula meeting by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, attacks against journalists not only constitute a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocol 1, but fall under war crimes under article 8 of the Rome Statute, which established the Court. She also said that the Court would not hesitate to investigate crimes in the context of its current investigations. For Reporters Without Borders, that gives hope for a decline in impunity.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  12. “Reporters Without Borders expresses its satisfaction at the inclusion of the draft resolution that will be voted on today of an obligation to report on the safety of journalists in the context of peacekeeping operations. We believe that the United Nations can also expedite genuine investigations. For example - unfortunately, a tragic one - on 29 April 2015, the Libyan Government in Tobruk announced the murder of seven journalists, including four Libyans, two Tunisians and an Egyptian, who had disappeared at the end of 2014. According to the official announcement, that information was based on statements by suspects recently arrested by the authorities.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  13. “And he would undertake investigations, in a complementary role, in situations in which no investigation was opened by the Member State in which occurred an act of violence against a journalist, a media professional or associated personnel. The eventual possibility of individual referrals to the Special Representative by professional and amateur journalists victims of abuse could be considered. As the Deputy Secretary-General mentioned, today more than 90 per cent of crimes against journalists remain forever unpunished and even go unprosecuted. Such a degree of impunity serves as encouragement to those who commit crimes againstjournalists.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  14. “Appointed and mandated by the Secretary-General, the Special Representative would have the task of collecting all the relevant information, in particular within the United Nations system, concerning violations against the safety and security ofjournalists in armed conflicts. The office would serve as an early-warning mechanism for the Secretary-General and, through him, for the Security Council. He would liaise with the United Nations system on activities for preventing attacks against journalists in armed conflicts and strive to enhance the United Nations capacity to analyse and manage all information relating to such crimes.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  15. “We ask that the post of Special Representative ofthe Secretary-General on the protection ofjournalists be established, with the responsibility for ensuring follow-up and monitoring paper of compliance by Member States with the obligations imposed by resolution 1738 (2006) and an eventual new resolution. The mandate could be established along the lines of that of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict. The setting up of such a mechanism will have the advantage of putting in place a permanent structure at the heart of the United Nations system.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  16. “It is clear that the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council are working assiduously to protect journalists by deepening international law and adopting the Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. But in 10 years, more than 700 journalists have been killed in the line of duty or because of their work. Each time, we have tried to avoid reality. How many crimes against journalists must there be before United Nations resolutions are finally implemented? Reporters Without Borders asks the the Council to establish an effective monitoring mechanism on implementation.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  17. “This is about defending a right ofall - the freedom ofthe press, "the freedom that allows you to verify the existence of all the other freedoms", in the words of the famous Burmese journalist Win Tin, who spent 19 years of his life in detention. The statement that the work of free, independent and impartial media constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society, and can therefore contribute to the protection of civilians also deserves to be welcomed. As Council members know, resolution 1738 (2006) was, unfortunately, not enough to solve the problem of the insecurity ofj ournalists. No matter how outstanding it may be, it is not certain that a new resolution will suffice, either.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  18. “This is a historic day for the protection of journalists and, we hope, for the freedom of the press as a whole. The draft text on which the Council will vote and, I hope, adopt refers to the right to freedom of expression as provided for by article 19 ofthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is, I believe, a historic moment in which the Security Council shall for the first time link the right to freedom of expression to the need to protect journalists, even if that may a priori obvious. It is not a matter of protecting a corporation, much less of guaranteeing the privileges for a category of civilians, as if all the civilians were not of equal dignity.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  19. “Another 25 have died since the beginning of the year, including five in the Sudan, two in Iraq, two in Yemen, two in Ukraine and one in Syria. Beyond the human tragedy for the victims and their families - tragedies that repulse the heart - there are additional risks for those who suffer horrors, sometimes in private, without witnesses. Let us not forget that these are stories that have led to the establishment of such legal protections as the Geneva Conventions. On behalf of Reporters Without Borders, an organization that champions and promotes press freedom, I thank the Security Council for meeting today on the essential topic of the protection of journalists. I welcome the excellent work carried out by the Lithuanian presidency.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source

  20. “Not everyone knows the name of Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi. In the autumn of 2014, that 36-year father was kidnapped in Samarra, a town in the province of Salahedine in Iraq, a few kilometres from the city of Tikrit. He worked as a cameraman for a television channel. While he was held hostage, the jihadist Islamic State group threatened to behead him because he refused to cooperate. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi was murdered in public in Samarra on 10 October 2014, alongside his brother and two other civilians. This heinous murder has received less coverage than others, but each time the blood flows, be it that of James Foley, Kenji Goto or another journalist, it is the same horror. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi was one of 66 journalists killed last year in the exercise or on account of their duties.”

    2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450 (2015) · source