Protection of journalists and media freedom 2012, para. 74
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- However, during the Special Rapporteur's mission to Mexico in 2010, reservations were expressed regarding the paucity of results achieved by the FEADLE and its tendency to decline competency over certain cases referred to its jurisdiction, due in part to the lack of will on the part of officials to take up cases and implement an adequate work programme, but also due to lack of autonomy and resources, and the fact that acts of violence against journalists are not prohibited under federal law. Although the Special Rapporteur welcomed the work plan which the FEADLE was implementing at the time of his mission to Mexico (A/HRC/17/27/Add.3), he emphasized the importance of immediately creating a national mechanism to protect journalists, designed and implemented through a high-level official and inter-institutional committee, led by a federal authority with the capacity to coordinate between diverse authorities, having its own sufficient resources, and with the participation of journalists and civil society organizations in its design, integration, functioning and evaluation. The Special Rapporteur underlines the importance of such institutions having sufficient autonomy and resources, as well as investigatory powers and the competency to make recommendations to the Government.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/20/17, para. 74.
- Paragraph number
- 74
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