MIAMI, Florida (February 7, 2006)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and International Association of Broadcasting (IAB) today announced the launch of a joint radio campaign titled Lets Put and End to the Impunity Surrounding Crimes Against Journalists.
The initiative consists of spots, to be broadcasted by radio stations throughout the Western Hemisphere, drawing attention to the fact that the murders of many journalists continue to go unpunished. In the past 18 years, a total of 290 news men and women have been murdered in the Americas. In these spots, listeners are invited to go to the IAPAs Web site www.impunidad.com and sign a letter to the authorities in their respective countries asking them to act to force official investigations into the murders to bring those behind them and those that carried them out to justice.
With the participation of thousands of people the objective of the IAPA and IAB is to demand that the authorities take effective corrective action to put an end to impunity once and for all.
The first spots to be broadcast by the radio stations are those concerning the cases of the murder of journalists Jaime Garzón and Nelson Carvajal (Colombia); Ronaldo Santa de Araujo, José Carlos Mesquita and Reinaldo Coutinho da Silva (Brazil); and Héctor Félix Miranda (Mexico). In this first phase of the campaign the spots will be aired only on Spanish-language radio.
The IAPA has been conducting this interactive campaign on a monthly basis since March 2003 in 320 newspapers throughout the Americas as part of strategy aimed at contributing to the cause of a free press. In this, it has received the financial support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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