Sri Lanka, Nov. 5 -- According to the UN, in roughly nine out of every ten journalist killings worldwide, nobody is held accountable. The "International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists", observed every year on November 2, is meant to stop such impunity and indifference on the part of the State and also Society.

The day commemorates the murder of two French radio journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, in Mali on November 2, 2013 when they were reporting for their station RFI.

Since 1993, more than 1,700 journalists have been killed while reporting, the UN says. UNESCO's most recent data puts the global "impunity rate" in these cases at 85%.

"Killings represent only the most extreme form of pressure against...