War Crimes Against Journalists Must Not Go Unpunished: we invite you to join the solidarity action

The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) invites you to join the solidarity action titled War Crimes Against Journalists Must Not Go Unpunished, dedicated to the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The discussion will take place on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. It will be dedicated to the risks and challenges for Ukrainian journalists during the war and russia’s accountability for crimes against Ukrainian media workers.

Major topics:

• Journalistic activity during the war. What protection do journalists have on the front line?
• Journalists in captivity. Why is there no mechanism for their liberation?
• Media activity in the occupation. How do journalists continue to fight in the information field?
• How to prosecute russia, which is guilty of crimes committed against journalists?

Besides, we will offer to watch a performance by the Actors For Future team, which symbolizes journalistic activity during the war. Every participant in the meeting will be able to join the flash mob in support of journalists in captivity by writing wishes to colleagues.

Participants:

• military journalists;
• journalists representing newsrooms from de-occupied and front-line territories;
• displaced journalists from the occupied territories;
• human rights defenders and civil activists;
• families of the killed and captured journalists;
• MPs, government representatives;
• diplomats and representatives of international organizations;
• other media workers.

Date: November 1, 2023

Start: 12 p.m.

The roundtable will be held in the Ukraine Crucifixion exhibition center of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (27 Lavrska Street). This site was symbolically chosen as the venue for the discussion as it was in the Ukraine Crucifixion exhibition center where, for the first time in world museum practice, an offline project about the war was created in real-time and during the war itself, and an exhibition illustrating the risks and challenges of journalistic activity in the conditions of the full-scale war.

Organizers: the NUJU, with the support of the civil rights defender organization Civil Rights Defenders (Sweden); the network of Journalists’ Solidarity Centers of the NUJU, which operates with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists, as well as UNESCO; and the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.