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Fighting gender-based violence during the pandemic

Gamag Europe, the European regional chapter of GAMAG, the World Alliance on Media and Gender has been invited to moderate the online event Fighting Gender-based violence in the Four Motors for Europe, that has taken place last Wednesday as a side event of the II Congress on the Eradication of Gender-Based Violence, organized by the Catalan Women’s Institute. It was our colleague from GE, Elena Tarifa, who moderated this panel on the third day of this online congress edition, with more than 1600 participants during the three days it lasted.

This II Congress on the Eradication of Gender-Based Violence had the specific goal of highlighting the impact of the pandemics and lock-down from the gender-based violence point of view, as well as the strategies, alliances and learnings that have been generated among different social agents in the time of Covid-19.

This side event then pretended to share experiences on the way the pandemic has affected the services and actions addressed by the the four regions part of the Four Motors of Europe alliance to fight gender-based violences and which are the learnings and challenges in this area now

The Four Motors For Europe is one of the most stable interregional cooperation network in Europe, signed in 1998  by 4 of the most highly industrialised and research oriented regions in the EU: Auvergne-Rhröne-Alpes in France, Baden-Würtemberg in Germany, Catalonia in Spain and Lombardy in italy with the aim of increasing the economic, scientific, social and cultural potential of these territories and actively participate in the European construction, mainly through joint positions.

Since september 2020, Catalonia holds the presidency of the Four Motors for Europe network.  The program of the Catalan presidency is based in the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda, as well as in the European Green Deal and it includes the development of 30 specific initiatives, one of them this side event.

Laura Martínez, president of the Institut Català de les Dones, the organizer of the Congress, said at the end of the conference that: “We can only overcome the pandemic and any other future threat if we invest in the promotion of human rights, gender equality and sustainability. ”. She added that “the pandemic has aggravated structural gender inequalities.”

The opening of the event was made by Elisabeth Nebreda, Secretary of Foreign Action and EU, of the Catalonia Government.

Then there was the turn of Núria Ramon, director of the Catalan Women’s Institute, who explained how the services for women suffering gender-based violence had to be adapted to lockdown in Catalonia, and of Andrea Bosch, from the coordination office of the working group of autonomous shelters for women in Baden-Württemberg, who exposed the complexity of co-financing for work in this region “a growing lack of safe spaces and places for women and their children, the complex reorganization as well as all the processes and restrictions imposed by the pandemic. During this time the ability to lower the risk of infection is being reduced. We are going to look for new spaces such as rental apartments and other alternatives.

Anna Lorenzetti, coordinator of “Gender violence: legal and psyco-social issue project” and associate professor in Constitutional Law at the University of Bergamo explained the difficult situation they had to go through in their region, one of the most impacted by the pandemic, and how women suffering domestic violence could contact with the support services by giving a secret code in pharmacies. Finally, Cécile Langeois, regional deputy director in charge of women’s rights and equality in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, took the floor and talk about how they establish a specific phone line “Ne frappe pas” to denounce domestic violence during lockdown and expressed the need of working in network with other regions in Europe so to eradicate gender-based violence and face the effects of the pandemic on it.

Also participating during these days in the Congress was Rita Segato, an Argentine anthropologist and feminist activist. This researcher is known for her work focused on gender issues in indigenous peoples and Latin American communities, sexist violence and gender relations, racism and colonialism. She affirmed that gender relations are a field of power and that it is a mistake to speak of sexual crimes and not crimes of power, domination and punishment. He coined the term femigenocide to describe crimes committed against women that achieve the degree of against humanity or genocide and that do not prescribe. The sociology professor at the UB, Núria Vergés, also spoke about the crisis of the priests and its impact in times of pandemic.

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AGENDA EVENTS SOURROUNDING THE 3rd ANNIVERSARY OF DAPHNE CARUANA…

AGENDA EVENTS SOURROUNDING THE 3rd ANNIVERSARY OF DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA’S ASSASSINATION

WEDNESDAY    14th OCTOBER  13.00 pm

Marilyn Clark and William Horsley will launch of the book “A Mission to Inform: Journalists at Risk Speak Out” featuring key Council of Europe officials and the authors (14th October 2020 @ 13.00 -14.30 CET). 

The Launch is followed by a symposium  discussing ways to put an end to impunity for attacks on and online harassment of journalists (15.00 – 17.45 CET). 

THURSDAY 15th OCTOBER 2020

17:00 Opening of Art Installation at Great Siege Monument, Valletta, with the theme ‘Justice for Daphne is Justice for Your Right to Know’. The launch will feature a Facebook Live discussion with participating artists. The Installation will remain in place through to Sunday 18 October 2020.

FRIDAY  16th OCTOBER 2020

11:00 Discussion for Maltese journalists on ‘The State of Journalism in Malta’ co-hosted by the Istitut tal-Ġurnalisti Maltin at the Great Siege Monument, Valletta. Streamed live on Facebook.
 
15:00   Silent gathering, Bidnija. Streamed live on Facebook.
 
18:00 Private Mass in suffrage of Daphne Caruana Galizia presided by His Grace Mgr. Charles J Scicluna, Metropolitan Archbishop of Malta. Streamed live on Facebook.
 
20:00 ‘When They Come Undone’: Premiere of a documentary tracing the aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination. The documentary will be followed by a Facebook Live discussion.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions activities and events will take place online in order to avoid mass gatherings. 

Everyone is encouraged to follow events online for safety measures.

MALTA-  OCTOBER, 2020

Photo by Pippa Zammit Cutajar

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GE pays tribute to journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, three…

GAMAG EUROPA pays tribute to murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on the third anniversary of her brutal killing by a car bomb on 16 October 2017 in recognition of her contribution as a female investigative journalist to exposing corruption and advancing the rule of law in Malta and Europe.

In a context where press freedom is under attack, Daphne’s courage and determination to expose the truth in the public interest continues to be a leading light in the struggle for democratic freedoms under threat.

Through her investigative journalism, Daphne worked relentlessly to fight for freedom of expression, she called out misogny and pursued investigations into corruption at the highest levels of government despite the professional harassment that she suffered throughout her career.

Daphne was constantly the target of attacks. The widely-reported harassment she faced online by hate groups followed multiple attacks on her home and her family.

“Daphne pushed forward through the insults, intimidation, condescension and attacks, but it ultimately led to her death. She was killed as a result of her work. She was killed because those in power wanted her silenced,” said Teresa Carreras, GAMAG EUROPE coordinator.

GAMAG EUROPA condemns such practices and calls for urgent action to stop further harassment of others in the profession.

Three years since her death, there is still no justice for her in a European Union Member State. Impunity for her murder is a risk to all of Europe, once a bastion in the defence of press freedom as a fourth pillar in a democracy.

GAMAG, The Global Alliance on Media and Gender,  and GAMAG EUROPA, its european chapter,  pays tribute to her courage, her fearlessness and to the impact she had not just in Malta, but across the world. We join the call for justice for Daphne and an end to impunity.

Caroline Muscat. Investigative Journalist and Founder of The Shift News

Malta  October 13, 2020

Photos by Pippa Zammit Cutajar
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