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  1. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
    The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  2. And Then They Came For Me
    Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
  3. Asesinato de dos periodistas en Guatemala y Honduras. La FEPALC y la FIP expresan su total consternaciA#n
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    La FederaciA#n Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) y la FederaciA#n de Periodistas de AmA#rica Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) expresan su consternaciA#n absoluta ante el asesinato, en menos de 48 horas de dos periodistas centroamericanos.
  4. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
  5. The Capital Punishment Debate
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  6. CMFR statement on the killings in Maguindanao
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The brutality and the sheer senselessness of the attack in Maguindanao represent a new low, even in the country's shameful record of violence. It calls for collective outrage and condemnation and the strongest demand for the immediate apprehension.
  7. Getting Away With Murder 2009
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The already murderous conditions for the press in Sri Lanka and Pakistan deteriorated further in the past year, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index
  8. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  9. Lenny Hochberg - Hochberg, MacGregor LL.B.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  10. Honduras: Rule of law and civil liberties founder in year since coup
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Joint statement on the first anniversary of the 28 June 2009 coup d#état in Honduras.
  11. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
  12. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
  13. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
  14. IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n Laguna, who worked for La OpiniA#n.
  15. IFJ Calls for Inquiry Into Lasantha's Murder
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the widow of Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge in calling on Sri Lanka's power-holders to take immediate action to conduct a full, fair and independent investigation into the murder
  16. IFJ Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Condemns Alarming Levels of Violence against Journalists in Latin America after Murders in Guatemala and Colombia.
  17. IFJ Condemns Murder of Turkish Editor
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists and its European regional group, the European Federation of Journalists, today condemned the killing of Cihan Hayirsevener, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper engaged in exposing corruption in Turkey.
  18. IFJ Condemns Murders of Journalists in Mexico
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today said impunity which is fueling violence against journalists has reached intolerable levels in Mexico after two more journalists were murdered in a single day last week, bringing to 12 the number
  19. IFJ Condemns Spate of Journalists' Murders in Honduras
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed fresh concern over the media crisis in Honduras following three murders in two weeks targeting media.
  20. IFJ Marks #End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings.
  21. Impunity and "Callous Indifference" Remain Threats as New Wave of Media Killings Wipes out Optimism
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on the killings of journalists in 2008 with a warning that 2009 could be the deadliest year yet for journalists.
  22. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
  23. The Kingdom of Matthias
    A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America

    Resource Type: Book
    In 1834 outside New York City, a cult centered around Matthias the Prophet was linked to theft, sexual relations, inferiority of women, and murder.
  24. The Mammoth and the Mouse
    Microhistory and Morphology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  25. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  26. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  27. A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous assignments; their stories offer lessons in how to improve security and hold governments accountable. Through interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns, our new database provides analysis by country, year, and type of death. It puts a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
  28. Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango State
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning.
  29. Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
  30. Nepalese journalist and womenâ##s rights activist brutally murdered
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Uma Singh, a Nepalese journalist and human rights activist who worked for the Janakpur Today Daily and Radio Today FM was brutually murdered on January 11.
  31. Reporter shot and killed in Rawalpindi
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Pakistani authorities must not allow Thursday's shooting death of veteran Pakistani reporter Raja Assad Hameed in Rawalpindi go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
  32. Roll Call of Loss and Tragedy Continues, Says IFJ Report of Media staff Killed in 2010
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today published the full report of journalists and media staff killed during 2010, saying that 94 media fatalities last year demonstrate the increasing risks facing journalists around the globe.
  33. Russia: Investigate Murder of Prominent Rights Lawyer
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Russian authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Stanislav Markelov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and bring his killers to justice, Human Rights Watch says.
  34. Somalia: Director of HornAfrik radio murdered in Mogadishu
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The director of Somalia's HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, has been shot dead in the capitalâ##s market district of Bakara. His murder comes 16 months after the radioâ##s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.
  35. Support for lawsuit brought against Iranian government before Montreal court
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is supporting the lawsuit which Stephan Hashemi has brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran before a Montreal court in an bid to obtain reparation for the detention, torture and death of his mother, photo-journalist Zah
  36. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  37. Twelve journalists killed on Mindanao island in "dark day for press freedom"
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    At least 12 journalists were killed today in Maguindanao province, Philippines, by armed men, including two policemen, linked to the provinces governor. More than 30 other people were murdered.
  38. 2009 Leaves One of Worst Records for Targeted Killings of Journalists, Says IFJ
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for more action from governments and the United Nations to protect media as it announced a grim total of 137 journalists and media personnel killed during 2009.
  39. The Walk and the Kiss
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A book about a sensational murder trial that shook Toronto in the early 1940s. After two hung juries, a third produced a conviction of airforceman Bill Newell, for the murder of his wife on Toronto Island. Publishing originally as This Man Hanged Himself.
  40. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.

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