CPJ Advocacy and Communications Manager Kerry Paterson, third from left, joins a side panel on journalist safety and impunity at the UN in New York. (Article 19)
CPJ Advocacy and Communications Manager Kerry Paterson, third from left, joins a side panel on journalist safety and impunity at the UN in New York. (Article 19)

CPJ joins UN discussion on journalist safety and impunity

The Committee to Protect Journalists and other rights groups, including Article 19, today took part in a side panel at the U.N. in New York, on journalist safety and impunity.

The panel highlighted findings from a United Nations Secretary General report, “The Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity,” to which CPJ contributed a statement, and CPJ Advocacy and Communications Manager Kerry Paterson discussed how sexual violence is used as a form of censorship, drawing from CPJ’s 2011 report “The Silencing Crime.”

The U.N. report can be viewed here.