The IAPA is waging a hemisphere-wide campaign, titled “Let Us Put an End to Impunity,” for those responsible for the murder of 279 journalists in the last 15 years not to continue to go unpunished. Interactive ads are being published in more than a hundred newspapers and magazines throughout the Americas, inviting readers to join the campaign by adding their signatures to a petition posed on the Web site www.impunidad.com
In a bid to silence the press, hit men shot Carpio Nicolle, editor of the Guatemalan newspaper El Gráfico, at point-blank range. His murder led to the IAPA’s current ongoing campaign.
A series of irregularities in the legal process have resulted in Carpio’s murder continuing to go unpunished 10 years after it was committed. The IAPA submitted the case to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which in turn on June 13, 2003, sent it to the Inter American Human Rights Court. A ruling by the Court against the Guatemalan state would set an important legal precedent in the battle against impunity.
The IAPA’s hemisphere-wide campaign against impunity, which is funded
by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also includes investigative reporting
programs, training for reporters working in hazardous environments, and the
monitoring of the state of press freedom in the Americas
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