Human Rights, Impunity and Anti-Press Violence: How Journalists Survive and Resist (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

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 rights 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