UNITED NATIONS: A United Nation (UN) committee on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) voted to create an international day to protect journalists as media activists condemned the mounting number of reporters killed on duty. The Reporters Without Borders group welcomed the move and said 89 journalists were killed while working in 2012, the highest number in nearly two decades.

The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee voted unanimously to make November 2 each year the International Day To End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists. November 2 is the day that French radio journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were killed by militants in Mali this year.

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