This page is dedicated to journalists who were assassinated in the exercise of their profession. It remembers their contribution to freedom of expression, democracy and peace.

UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom. Article 1 of its Constitution requires the Organization to “further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.” To realize this purpose the Organization is required to “collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image…”

20-07-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Honduran broadcast journalists Nery Jeremías Orellana and Adan Benítez

20-07-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Mexican journalist Angel Castillo Corona

11-07-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Colombian journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez

01-07-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of Congolese journalist Witness-Patchelly Kambale Musonia

01-07-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General condemns murder of Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco

01-07-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General deplores death of Iraqi cameraman Alwan al-Ghorabi

16-06-2011 (Paris) 

Director General condemns killing of Indian journalist, Jyotirmoy Dey

10-06-2011 (London) 

Major conference aims to lead the fight against impunity of those who mistreat journalists

17-05-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Pakistani journalist Nasrullah Afridi

09-05-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Peruvian journalist Julio Castillo Narváez

09-05-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Brazilian journalist Valério Nascimento

28-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General deplores death of Bolivian news agency director David Niño de Guzmán

23-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General deplores death of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya

21-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General calls for investigation into deaths in detention of media professionals in Bahrain

19-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Italian journalist Vittorio Arrigoni

19-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns murder of Brazilian journalist Luciano Leitão Pedrosa

18-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Iraqi TV executive Taha Hameed

04-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Iraqi journalist in Tikrit

01-04-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Philippines journalist Marlina "Len" Flores-Sumera

28-03-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General condemns killing of Libyan journalist Mohammed al-Nabbous and calls for freeing of detained media workers

28-03-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General deplores killing of Yemeni journalist Jamal Ahmed al-Sharabi in Sanaa protests

16-03-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns violence and intimidation of journalists in Libya

10-03-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condemns killing of Iraqi journalist Hilal al-Ahmadi

28-02-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General condems murder of Pakistani journalist Abdost Rind in Balochistan

10-02-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO condemns murder of Egyptian journalist Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud

03-02-2011 (Paris) 

Viet Nam: UNESCO condemns fatal attack on journalist Le Hoang Hung

03-02-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO condemns murder of Indian journalist Umesh Rajput

26-01-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General condemns murder of Filipino journalist Gerardo Ortega

25-01-2011 (Paris) 

Director-General urges Pakistan to investigate death of journalist Ilyas Nizzar

19-01-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO Director-General deplores death of French photographer Lucas Mebrouk Dolega

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