On Wednesday, Nov. 23, for the first time, the world will recognize the International Day to End Impunity, held to coincide with the anniversary of the Nov. 23, 2009, massacre of 32 journalists in Maguindanao in the southern Philippines. The inaugural day is being organized by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) as a "call to action to demand justice for those who have been killed for exercising their right to freedom of expression and shed light on the issue of impunity," according to IFEX.
On Nov. 17, electronic equipment and office supplies were stolen from the Venezuelan freedom of expression NGO, Public Space, in the capital city of Caracas, reported the Press and Society Institute.
An Argentine journalist and her assistant both claimed to have received death threats since the beginning of November. The journalists believe the threats are motivated by the up-coming publication of a book investigating Mexican President Felipe Calderón's six-year term, reported Artículo 19.
Familiares de jornalistas assassinados ou desaparecidos e defensores da liberdade de expressão participarão, no dia 10 de dezembro, na Cidade do México, do Fórum Memória de Jornalistas, organizado pelas organizações Repórteres Sem Fronteiras e Centro de Jornalismo e Ética Pública (CEPET, na sigla em espanhol).
The newspaper El Mundo de Córdoba claimed that gunmen fired on their vendors from a truck on Saturday, Nov. 19, in the city of Córdoba, in the Gulf state of Veracruz.
Family members of killed and disappeared journalists and freedom of expression advocates will meet in Mexico City on Dec. 10 to participate in the Journalists Memorial Forum, organized by Reporters Without Borders and the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET in Spanish) .
Um locutor de rádio foi esfaqueado e agredido na cidade de El Alto, próxima à La Paz, capital da Bolívia, em 15 de novembro, segundo informações do jornal Crónica Viva.
A journalist and her ex-boyfriend were shot to death at a gas station in the Brazilian coastal city of Vila Velha, in Espírito Santo, the morning of Saturday, Nov. 19, according to Folha Vitória.
A radio announcer was stabbed and beaten in the Bolivian city of El Alto, close to the capital city of La Paz, on Nov. 15, according to the newspaper Crónica Viva.
With President Dilma Rousseff's signature on Friday, Nov. 18, Brazil became the 89th country in the world to approve a freedom of information law, reported the Forum of Public Information Access. The law, which guarantees public access to government data and documents as well as private entities that receive public funding, will take effect in six months.
Union workers threw rocks at a television station and attacked reporters in Puerto Madryn in Argentine Patagonia on the evening of Nov. 16, according to Clarín.
Com a sanção da presidente Dilma Rousseff nesta sexta-feira, 18 de novembro, o Brasil passou a ser o 89º país do mundo a ter uma lei de acesso à informação pública, comemorou o Fórum de Acesso a Informações Públicas. A regra, que garante o acesso de qualquer interessado a dados e documentos de todas as esferas da administração pública e de entidades privadas que recebam recursos públicos, entrará em vigor em seis meses.