Irina Georgieva Bokova is a Bulgarian politician and the former Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017). During her political and diplomatic career in Bulgaria, she served, among others, two terms as a member of the National parliament, and deputy minister of foreign affairs and minister of foreign affairs ad interim under Prime Minister Zhan Videnov. She also served as Bulgaria's ambassador to France and to Monaco, and was Bulgaria's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Bokova was also the personal representative of Bulgaria's President to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2005–2009).
Abdost Rind , a reporter in Pakistan, was working for the Daily Eagle, an Urdu-language newspaper in the Turbat area of Balochistan, Pakistan, on 18 February, when he became the second journalist killed in Balochistan in 2011.
Lê Hoàng Hùng, a Vietnamese investigative journalist, worked for Người Lao Động in Tân An, Vietnam, where he covered corruption and crime. He was burned to death by his wife.
Mohammed Shu’i Al-Rabu’i, also spelled Mohammed Shùi Al-Rabù and Muhammad al-Rabou'e,, was a Yemeni journalist for the monthly magazine Al-Qahira and was killed at his home in the Bani Qa'is District, Hajjah Governorate of Yemen, where he worked for 11 years reporting on crime and corruption cases. His last articles were about a local criminal gang known as the Aouni family, who allegedly were involved in child trafficking. Five members of the Aouni gang killed al-Rabou'e on 13 February 2010 after being released from jail for a previous attack on al-Rabou'e in 2009. Al-Rabou'e's was one of 44 journalists killed in 2010. His death prompted some Yemeni political leaders to meet to discuss how to end violent targeting of journalists in Yemen. He was the first journalist killed in Yemen since the 1990 unification.
Julio Castillo Narváez was a Peruvian producer and host of a radio news program on the Radio Ollantay station. He was known as a stern critic of the local government. Narváez was murdered in Viru, Peru on May 3, 2011, which was World Press Freedom Day. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Narváez was one of three broadcast journalists killed in Peru in 2011.
Ghulam Rasool Birhamani, a native of the Sindh province, Pakistan, was working as a reporter for the Daily Sindhu Hyderabad in Wahi Pandhi, Dadu on a controversial story involving child marriage when his body was found the morning after he went missing on 9 May 2010.
Ferzat Jaban was the first Syrian journalist reported to be killed while covering the Syrian civil war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, also known as Abdul Karim Muhammed al-Khaiwani, was a Yemeni politician, human rights activist, and journalist, columnist and editor, who was known for his critical articles pertaining to the civil rights abuses and government corruption of the Yemeni government. He was assassinated in his hometown of Sana'a, Yemen because, according to Freedom Foundation Yemen, he was politically outspoken.
Jamal Ahmad al-Sharabi, was a Yemeni photojournalist with the independent weekly, Al-Masdar, in Sana'a, Yemen.
Luciano Leitão Pedrosa, a television presenter and radio host in Brazil, was known for his broadcasts about crime and politics. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the local media had reported that Pedrosa had received threats before he was killed. Police investigations at first did not follow the lead about threats as a motive but would later return to that as the motive and arrest two brothers and an accomplice who had threatened him.
Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, also known as Kadaf, was a Somali activist and the manager/director for the independent Somaliweyn Radio in Mogadishu, Somalia. At the time of his murder, he had been working on a re-launch of Radio Somaliweyn, which had been attacked and looted by Al-Shabaab in 2010.
The 2012 murder on the Syrian-Turkish border is about two European-Algerian freelance journalists, Naseem Intriri and Walid Bledi, who were making a documentary about refugees and the Syrian civil war when they were killed during an attack on the Syrian border town of Darkush, Idlib Governorate, near the Turkish border. The Syrian government called them "infiltrators."
On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, launched an intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in response to calls from the president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement. The conflict ignited between the government forces, the Houthi rebels and other armed groups after the draft constitution and power-sharing arrangements collapsed, despite progress in the political transition led by the United Nations at that time, leading to an escalation of violence in mid-2014. The Houthis and allied units of the armed forces seized control of Sana’a and other parts of the country in September 2014 and in the following months. This prompted President Hadi to ask Saudi Arabia to intervene against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
Al Masirah is a Yemeni TV channel which was founded and is owned by the Ansarullah movement (Houthis). The TV channel is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon.
Almigdad Mojalli was a Yemeni freelance journalist working for the United States media service Voice of America. On 17 January 2016 Mojalli was killed by a Saudi airstrike in a village near Sana'a while attempting to report on the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Human rights violations, committed by all warring parties, have been widespread throughout the Yemeni Civil War. This includes the two main groups involved in the ongoing conflict: forces loyal to the current Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and Houthis and other forces supporting Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have also carried out attacks in Yemen. The Saudi-led coalition, backed by the United States and other nations, has also been accused of violating human rights and breaking international law, especially in regards to airstrikes that repeatedly hit civilian targets.
Ibrahim Al-Omar, was a Syrian journalist and camera operator for Al Jazeera in Idlib, Syria, who was killed during the Syrian Civil War.
The following is a timeline of the Yemeni humanitarian crisis, ongoing since the mid-2010s.
Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi was a Yemeni journalist and photographer.
