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"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 ("protection approaches", or making demands of the state, often via intermediaries), and activist and professional strategies ("self-protection approaches"). Critical of International Relations scholarly debates on the value of international human rights law/norms to local civil society, Tamsin Mitchell demonstrates that while protection approaches based on such standards are important and valued, they are not enough: self-protection is central - and increasingly so. She advocates the need to take a more bottom-up and inclusive approach to civil society and the importance of alternative, non-legal norms in (self-)protection and truth and justice-seeking. Suitable for both academics and practitioners, Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence prescribes new areas of research and debate in international relations, global studies, human rights, and media/journalism studies"--

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.



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 (“protection approaches”, or making demands of the state, often via intermediaries), and activist and professional strategies (“self-protection approaches”).

Critical of International Relations scholarly debates on the value of international human rights law/norms to local civil society, Tamsin Mitchell demonstrates that while protection approaches based on such standards are important and valued, they are not enough: self-protection is central – and increasingly so. She advocates the need to take a more bottom-up and inclusive approach to civil society and the importance of alternative, non-legal norms in (self-)protection and truth and justice-seeking.

Suitable for both academics and practitioners, Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence prescribes new areas of research and debate in international relations, global studies, human rights, and media/journalism studies.

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Drawing on a decade of experience supporting journalists under threat, Tamsin Mitchell has written a ground-breaking book on how we can better protect journalists and more generally a free press. Focusing on the partial democracies of Honduras and Mexico the volume provides a cold shower for prevailing human rights assumptions about norm diffusion, state compliance and civil society as an engine of enforcement. Instead - drawing on almost 90 interviews - Mitchell argues for the importance of self-protection, on activist strategies and self-protection which prioritise the profession and public, rather than the state, as routes to truth, justice and the challenging of impunity. The result is a must-read book for scholars from politics, international relations, law and related disciplines, and for practitioners and policy makers with an interest in journalism, human rights and, more generally, routes to strengthening democracy.

Professor Paul Gready, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York

Empirically rich, theoretically novel and lucidly written. This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the tactics that journalists at risk of violence and impunity use to defend themselves and their profession.

Martin Scott, Professor of Media and Global Development, University of East Anglia

This is an insightful study about how journalists develop self-protection strategies in the face of risks and impunity in Honduras and Mexico. It should be required reading for anyone interested in how domestic and international protection mechanisms impact the safety of journalists as they seek truth and advance human rights.

Dr Alice Nah, Associate Professor, Sociology, Durham University

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

Tamsin S. Mitchell (PhD Politics) is a visiting researcher and former ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sheffields Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) and a freelance consultant, most recently for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Previously, she worked for various international human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including for the literary and free expression NGO PEN International, where she managed programmes of research and advocacy in Latin America and Africa and provided support to writers and journalists at risk. Mitchell has taught at several universities, including the University of Sheffield and the University of York in the United Kingdom and the Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional in Colombia, South America.