Title: The protection of journalists in armed conflicts
Abstract: The nature of warfare has changed throughout the world and, consequently, so has the nature of the job of those reporting on it. Wars have become more violent, claiming an increasing number of lives of the journalists involved as well as of civilians. Keith Suter here describes the situation which faces journalists currently reporting on the world's troublespots. Conflicts are no longer conventional, but have often turned into guerrilla warfare and since journalists are required to be where the fighting is taking place, they are constantly under threat. The international community has done very little to keep up with these changes. The Geneva. Convention, updated in 1977, and the Hague Convention of 1907, deal with the issue of ‘newspaper correspondents’ but, Suter argues, fail to address many of the main features of the ‘new warfare state’, most notably the rise of guerrilla warfare. He calls for governments to show more concern over the fates of their citizens who care journalists reporting from war zones.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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