journalist

Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO chief condemns murder of Iraqi educator, CBS crew members

30 May 2006
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the assassination of a senior Iraqi Education Ministry official and denounced the growing number of attacks against educators in the country while also deploring the killing two CBS television crew members, the latest media professionals to die while covering the war.
Mr. Matsuura

UNESCO condemns yet one more murder of journalist in Philippines

19 May 2006
Just a day after deploring an attack on a Christian radio station in Kenya, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today again exerted its role as defender of freedom of the press, condemning the murder of a Philippines photographer.
Koïchiro Matsuura

UNESCO condemns attack on Christian radio station in Kenya

18 May 2006
In its latest defence of freedom of expression and the media, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned last week’s attack on a Christian radio station in Nairobi, Kenya, that left one person dead and two others injured.
Koïchiro Matsuura

Two more journalists killed as UNESCO presents press freedom prize

4 May 2006
Even as he presented an award to a Lebanese journalist who lost a hand and a leg in an attempted car bomb assassination, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had to deplore the murder of two more media professionals on the eve of the ceremony and in the very country hosting it.