- Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
- 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
- Canadians for Genocide Education
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
- Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
- 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.
- IFJ Calls for Prompt Inquiry into Murder of Senior Journalist in Pakistan
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate inquiry in the murder of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, senior correspondent of Daily Pakistan newspaper who was shot dead by gunmen.
- IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was killed and his colleague Carlos Sanchez wounded.
- IFJ Condemns ‘Shocking' Violence on Journalists in Belarus
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused authorities in Belarus of "violent bullying and intimidation" of journalists covering a peaceful protest in central Minsk yesterday.
- 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.
- IFJ Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 2010
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2011
The International Federation of Journalists warns that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that at least 94 journalists and media personnel who were killed in 2010.
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
- Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2008
Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
- Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
- Nonviolence
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Outrage at fatal shooting of newspaper editor in Colombo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo.
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
- Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today#s actually-existing barbarism.
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