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Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GE) deffends building bridges to talk with…

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (GAMAG Europe) stands for avoiding “scare tactics of canceling Russian culture and all Russians”

*** “Millions of Russians are banned from the world, while simultaneously facing unprecedented pressures inside Russia. If this practice continues, you Westerners won’t be able to find anyone to talk with in Russia”, warns.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, member of the GE’s Coordination Committee, talks about journalism and feminism with Jackie Abramian –also committed to women’s equality and empowerment– in a long interview published by ‘Ms.’, a magazine that has been for more than 50 years at the forefront of feminist journalism.

For a feminist journalism, for a dignified journalism

Feminist Journalism, Dignified Journalism

GAMAG EUROPE

Valência (Spain) 20-06-2023

Facing the new political and institutional shift in Valencia, where the far-right has reached the power in the Regional government, the Group of Women Journalists and Photojournalists Les Beatrius advises the media and their management on:

1. Bearing in mind what has been achieved through the efforts and mobilization of feminism and that is already included in the legal texts: gender-based violence is NOT domestic violence. Our stories must banish and denounce the denialism of this structural problem.

DECLARATION ON IRAN

DECLARATION

GAMAG stands with Iranian women and girls for their freedom and right to equality

Appalled by the brutal repression of the protests in Iran against the theocratic regime, led by women under the slogan “Zan, zendegi, azadi” (“Women, life, freedom”), the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG):

Stands in solidarity with Iranian society, particularly the women leading the ongoing, justified protest against the regime’s systematic violations of human rights under the slogan “Zan, zendegi, azadi” (“Women, life, freedom”)

Malta / Daphne Caruana Galizia

The film “Daphne was right” pays tribute to the maltese investigative journalist 5 years after her murder

*** The documentary by Manuel Delia and Louiselle Vassallo covers some of her most prominent investigations published in 2016 and 2017 and highlights how accurate her findings were

*** In an unexpected twist to the case, two brothers accused of the crime reversed their pleas of ‘innocence’, admitted the charges and were each sentenced to 40 years in prison

Journalism is a public good

World trends in freedom of expression and media development; Global report 2021/2022

“Journalism is a public good” is the theme of the current edition of UNESCO’s World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. Published every four years since 2014, the World Trends series “analyses trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence, and the safety of journalists”. (https://www.unesco.org/en/world-media-trends)

The report documents the growing crises in the freedom and safety of journalists worldwide, including violence against women journalists that “poses a threat to diversity in the media, as well as equal participation in democratic deliberation and the public’s right to access information.” The publication presents the research evidence on the scale and impact of such violence, and response measures reported UN member States.

Read the report