For the past four years, Mexico has consistently ranked among the world’s deadliest countries for journalists. Reporters who cover sensitive topics such as organized crime are subject to threats, violence, exile, even murder, with journalists who expose collusion between criminals and public officials at particular risk. Impunity for these crimes remains almost absolute.
Although it is one of the few countries in Latin America with a formal mechanism for the protection of journalists and a Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression, neither have served to significantly improve security conditions for journalists. The murder of six journalists over the past seven months has firmly established Mexico as the world’s deadliest country for journalists in 2019.
Who threatens journalists in Mexico, and why? What efforts have been made by the Mexican government to mitigate violence, and what more needs to be done? Can lessons be taken from other countries in the region? To analyze the patterns of violence against journalists in Mexico, the shortcomings of current efforts to protect the country’s media workers, and the steps needed to break the cycle of impunity, the Inter-American Dialogue is pleased to partner with Reporters Without Borders to host “No News is Not Good News: Combating Pervasive Violence Against Journalists in Mexico.”
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WELCOME
Michael Shifter
President, Inter-American Dialogue (@MichaelShifter)
OPENING REMARKS
Sabine Dolan
Interim Executive Director, Reporters Without Borders USA (RSF) (@sabinedolan)
SPEAKERS
Maureen Meyer
Director, Mexico Program, Washington Office on Latin America (@meyermc)
Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul
Freelance journalist; Founder and Lead, Democracy Fighters (@luoach)
Dolia Estévez
SinEmbargo.com weekly columnist and free lance journalist (@DoliaEstévez)
Edison Lanza
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (@EdisonLanza)
MODERATOR
Michael Camilleri
Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue (@camillerimj)
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