Haiti, Israel most likely to let journalists’ murders go unpunished, CPJ 2024 impunity index shows - Committee to Protect Journalists 10/31/24, 10:37 AM As a result, CPJ is actively advocating with press freedom partners and others for an international investigative task force focused on crimes against journalists. A blueprint for a body, initially proposed in 2020 by a panel of legal experts, could deploy resources or advise in situations where local law enforcement may be lacking either capacity or political will to investigate crimes against journalists. A feasibility study has been carried out by the Netherlands. Impunity is as endemic as ever In this index period, CPJ identi!ed 241 killings where there was clear evidence the murders were directly linked to a person’s work. Less than 4% of those murdered achieved full justice; 19% obtained partial justice, meaning some of their killers were held to account; and the remaining 77% received no justice. Since 1992, CPJ has classi!ed 974 journalist killings as murder, with only 5% receiving full justice, and 79% remaining unsolved. #e !gures are largely unchanged this year; as are the dangers journalists face. Impunity is as endemic as ever, and the families and colleagues of murdered journalists have little chance of seeing anyone held responsible. Nowhere is this reality more grim than in the cases of 30 journalists whose murderers are still free more than 30 years after CPJ documented their 1992 killings. Only cases involving complete impunity are listed in our index; those where some have been convicted, but other suspects remain free – partial impunity – are not. Journalists behind the numbers Behind the calculations and classi!cations are the journalists, and their grieving colleagues, families, and friends. Here are just a few journalists murdered during the index period whose killers have not been held to account: https://cpj.org/thematic-reports/haiti-israel-most-likely-to-let-journalists-murders-go-unpunished-cpj-2024-impunity-index-shows/ Page 11 of 21