Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

A recent study has been conducted by the CPJ or the Committee to Protect Journalists illuminating the apparent fact that Journalists world-wide seem to be loosing more of their freedoms everyday.  According to CPJ a journalist has been shot and killed in the line of duty once every 8 days over the course of the past two decades.  Including 232 journalists behind bars coupled with seventy journalists loosing their lives in 2012.  This all equates to a 43 percent increase from 2011. 

CPJ recently came out with a “risk list” or a list of ten countries that experienced the highest “downward trends” during 2012.  Such countries include Pakistan, Somalia, Brazil, Ecuador, Turkey, Syria, Russia, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Iran.

An example expressing the harsh reality that in certain countries journalists should constantly be looking over their shoulder came about in Russia.  In December of 2012 two "members of the bandit underground" shot and killed Russian reporter Kazbek Gekkiyev on accusations of "one-sided reporting."

According to the state newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Gekkiyev was walking down the street with a friend when two men walked up to him and asked for his name.  Seconds after the reporter gave his name he was shot in the head three times.  

CPJ states that Gekkiyev was the seventh journalist to be killed due to their occupation in the past decade in the North Caucasus region, which makes it the most dangerous place in Russia for the press.

Wouldent one think that the rise in journalists being threatened around the world spark some sort of a resolution among nation leaders? 

The CPJ brings up a solid point. CPJ has been the strongest advocator or a proposed UN resolution.  In order to gaurentee safe journalism the UN proposes that no journalist can be touched in a conflict zone. Backing this idea up is article 19 of the 1948 “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” which includes the right to “impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,” which supposedly makes freedom of the press and global right.  The advocacy of this "freedom" is still ongoing.