Status prawny a bezpieczeństwo mediów w sytuacjach współczesnych konfliktów.
Legal status and media security in contemporary armed conflicts.
Author(s): Katarzyna Badźmirowska – MasłowskaSubject(s): Media studies, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Security and defense, Globalization
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: media security; legal status; contemporary armed conflicts; international peace; international safety; globalisation;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of changes occurring in the connotation of armed conflict from the perspective of media fulfilling their remit under different kinds of dangerous situations. The paper concerns the legal status of journalists working in contemporary international and non-international armed conflicts; differences under the basic provisions of the international humanitarian law dividing them for embedded war correspondents and other media professionals are shown. Taking into consideration that recently most of the growing number of attacks on them are happening in peace time in the frame of non international, local conflicts, which are not covered by IHL, the reinforcement of legal means of their protection as well as establish of new comprehensive instrument are to be questioned.
Journal: Journal of Modern Science
- Issue Year: 18/2013
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 281-304
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Polish