BBC Breathing Sculptures And Memorial Poem

EDM number 1804 in 2007-08, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 16/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Media and Military operations.

That this House notes with approval the BBC commission by former Westminster political correspondent James Fenton of the poem Memorial remembering the bravery and self-sacrifice made by news journalists and their crews and of the sculpture Breathing by Jaume Plensa dedicated to news journalists killed on location; commends the work of www.newssafety.com and the International News Safety Institute dedicated to the safety of journalists and media staff; remembers that at least 200 media deaths have been recorded from those of Ahmed Hadi Naji, in Iraq and Lan Chengzhang in China in January 2007 to Nasteh Dahir Farah in Somalia and Abdul Samad Rohani in Afghanistan; and commends UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for attending the inauguration on 16th June 2008.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.