Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence: How Journalists Survive and Resist [Hardcover]

This book?is a comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of journalists responses to impunity for anti-press violence in?two Latin American partial democracies,?Mexico and Honduras. Suitable for academics and practitioners,?this book?prescribes new areas of debate in?international relations, global studies, human rights, and journalism.

1. Introduction  2. Civil Society Responses to Impunity, from International Human Rights Norms to Self-Protection  3. Violence against Journalists and Impunity in Mexico and Honduras: The Role of the State, Civil Society and the Media  4. Domestic Strategies: Demanding Justice and Protection from State Institutions   5. International Strategies: Using International Human Rights Standards, Mechanisms and Actors to seek Justice and Protection  6. Activist Strategies: Mobilising as Activists  7. Professional Strategies: Responding as Journalists  8. From Protection to Self-Protection: Towards a More Holistic Approach to Journalist Safety and Addressing Impunity.  Appendix A: Note on Methods and Data.  Appendix B: List of Interviewees.  Appendix C: Summary of Journalists' Rights in Mexico and Honduras in International Law and National Constitutions

Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence is a qualitative, comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of journalists responses to impunity for anti-press violence in two Latin American partial democracies, Mexico and Honduras. It is the first book-length analysis of the security and protection of journalists who can also be seen as human rights defenders. The book draws on 89 interviews with such journalist-defenders and organisations that support them, carried out in 2018 and 2022/23. It shows how journalists use several interlinked strategies to seek justice and protection: domestic and international strategies (protl*