UN laws against journalist impunity 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 In 2013 – five years after CPJ launched its first impunity index – the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists was created and has served as an advocacy tool to highlight countries where impunity for murders of journalists is entrenched. A body of United Nations resolutions supporting journalists followed, chief among them, U.N. Security Council Resolution 2222 (2015), establishing that journalists are civilians and are protected by International Law. Deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime. In 2017, the U.N. adopted Human Rights Council Resolution 33/2, which mandates member states to “prevent, protect and prosecute” in order to end impunity. Despite international frameworks intended to tackle impunity, the lack of meaningful improvement in accountability for journalist killings in the past decades indicates more needs to be done to hold perpetrators to account. In December 2020, CPJ – along with partners Reporters Without Borders and Free Press Unlimited – launched the Safer World for the Truth project, which published reports into cold cases of journalist killings. #ese reports showed that a common failing was that investigators neglected to follow international standards – speci!cally U.N. standards known as the Minnesota Protocol – at the local level in order to ensure accountability. Flawed police investigations, substandard evidence collection, and missteps in prosecutions were all frequent features of these cases. https://cpj.org/thematic-reports/haiti-israel-most-likely-to-let-journalists-murders-go-unpunished-cpj-2024-impunity-index-shows/ Page 10 of 21