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More than 600 journalists had been killed in the past decade, 41 of them in Syria in the course of 2012, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said during the Wednesday debates.

Eliasson said that each journalist killed by extremists, drug cartels or even Government forces, meant one less voice to speak on behalf of the victims of conflict, crime and human rights abuses.  Every reporter silenced was one less observer of efforts to uphold rights and human dignity.

All journalists, across all media, need to be able to do their jobs — when it is safe to speak, the whole world benefits,” the Deputy Secretary-General said, commending the April 2012 launch of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issues of Impunity.

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