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GRANTS

EMERGENCY NUMBER AND INFORMATION ABOUT PROTECTION GRANTS https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/programme/protection-grants

VISAS

VISAS FOR AFGHANISTAN WOMEN JOURNALISTS https://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/pakistan-to-facilitate-visas-for-journalists-and-media-personnel-in-afghanistan/

VISA PROGRAM. Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh (CGM) https://www.state.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-priority-2-designation-for-afghan-nationals/

For journalists who have worked with Canadian media/NGO/embassy and/or Afghan government: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees/help-outside-canada.html

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GAMAG urgently calls to save women journalists in Afghanistan

photo: Wakil Kohsar/Getty

August 16, 2021
Contact person: GAMAG Chair, Aimée Vega Montiel
Email: aimeevegamx@yahoo.com.mx

The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) is deeply concerned about the situation of women, media professionals, and women journalists in particular after the Taliban gained control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15. Members of the Alliance stand in solidarity with women colleagues in Afghanistan and seek to extend support to them at this especially difficult juncture.

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25N- We must put an end to violence and…

GAMAG Europe joins the multiple organizations, feminist movement and civil society at European and international level in the commemoration of the 25N, International Day for the elimination of violence against women, to end the sexist violence suffered by women and children from all over the world, and encourages countries to ratify the International Labor Organization’s Convention 190 on violence and harassment, by supporting the International Trade Union Confederation’s campaign to accelerate the process towards the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work.

The provisions of Convention 190 facilitate the prevention and prosecution of these threats and in the case of journalism it should be noted that by it obliges media employers by law to ensure the safety of journalists when working outside the newsroom and specifically addresses online violence, by forcing States to adopt legislation that protects professionals from online attacks and to create reporting mechanisms. In addition, it includes specific protections for the most vulnerable groups, susceptible to hate speech and discrimination in the workplace. The International Federation of Journalists (FIP) has launched an international campaign on the need to ratify this convention, to coincide with the commemoration of 25N.

Regarding European countries, in Spain, the ratification process of ILO Convention 190 is already underway, after the Spanish Congress of Deputies has issued a favorable opinion for its ratification and it must now be approved by the Council of Ministers. Italy and Portugal are also in the process of ratification and Finland has already done so.

On the other hand, the European chapter of the Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG Europe) calls on European governments and the EU to have accurate data accessible to the press on the impact of sexist violence against women.

There are many countries in Europe that lack data to help to identify this problem with gender perspective in the information on gender violence cases. There is even a confusion between sexist violence and domestic violence in some of the media.

Gamag Europe highlights the trajectory of Spain in this field, a country that since 2003 has had statistics on victims of gender violence and that in January will include victims of vicarious violence, that is, children and girls who are murdered in contexts of sexist violence.

Having reliable information is essential so that the journalistic profession can incorporate it into information on gender violence both to contextualize crimes and to make visible the dimensions that lead to it, in every country, so that European citizens can recognize and become aware of the problem.

Gamag Europe recalls that the Istanbul Convention of the Council of Europe, which is valid since 2014, includes in its article 11 the commitment of the signatory countries on data collection and investigation of sexist violence: “For the purposes of the application of the present Convention, the Parties shall compromise to: collect relevant statistical data disaggregated at regular intervals of time on the cases of all forms of violence within the scope of this Convention ”.

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25N- Acabemos con la violencia y el acoso a…

GAMAG Europa se une a las múltiples organizaciones y sociedad civil a nivel europeo e internacional en la conmemoración del 25N, Dia Internacional para la eliminación de la violencia contra las mujeres, para acabar contra la violencia machista que sufren mujeres y niños y niñas de todo el mundo, y anima a los países a ratificar el Convenio 190 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo sobre la violencia y el acoso, apoyando la campaña de la Confederación Sindical Internacional para acelerar el proceso que nos lleve a la eliminación de la violencia y el acoso en el mundo del trabajo.

Las disposiciones del convenio 190 facilitan la prevención y persecución de estas amenazas y en el caso del periodismo hay que indicar que obligan por ley a los empresarios de los medios de comunicación a garantizar la seguridad de los/las periodistas cuando trabajen fuera de la redacción y recoge de forma específica la violencia ‘online’ obligando a los Estados a adoptar legislación que proteja a los/las profesionales de los ataques en redes y a crear mecanismos de denuncia. Además, incluye protecciones específicas para los colectivos más vulnerables, susceptibles de recibir más mensajes de odio y discriminación en el lugar del trabajo. La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) ha lanzado una campaña internacional sobre la necesidad de ratificar este convenio coincidiendo con la conmemoración del 25N.

En el caso de los países europeos, España, el proceso de ratificación del convenio 190 de la OIT está ya en marcha, después de que el Congreso de los Diputados de España haya emitido dictamen favorable para su ratificación y ahora debe aprobarse en el Consejo de Ministros. Italia y Portugal también están en proceso de ratificación y Finlandia ya lo ha hecho.

Por otra parte, el capítulo europeo de la Alianza Global para los Medios de Comunicación y el Género (GAMAG Europa) hace un llamamiento a los gobiernos europeos y a la UE para que cuenten con datos precisos y accesibles a la prensa sobre el impacto de la violencia machista en las mujeres.

Son muchos los países del entorno europeo que carecen de datos que ayuden a identificar este problema en las informaciones que se realizan sobre violencia de género. Incluso existe una confusión entre violencia machista y violencia doméstica en algunos.

Gamag Europa pone en valor la trayectoria de España en este terreno, país que desde 2003 cuenta con estadísticas sobre víctimas de violencia de género y que en enero incorporará a estas cifras de feminicidios a las víctimas de violencia vicaria, es decir, a los niños y las niñas que son asesinados en contextos de violencia machista.

Contar con información fiable es imprescindible para que la profesión periodística pueda incorporarla a las informaciones sobre violencia de género tanto para contextualizar los crímenes como para visibilizar las dimensiones que alcanza en cada país y que la ciudadanía europea pueda reconocer y tomar conciencia del problema.

Gamag Europa recuerda que el Convenio de Estambul del Consejo de Europa, que está en vigor desde 2014, recoge en su artículo 11 el compromiso de los países firmantes sobre recopilación de datos e investigación de la violencia machista: “A los efectos de la aplicación de la presente Convención, las Partes se comprometerán a: recopilar datos estadísticos pertinentes desglosados a intervalos regulares sobre los casos de todas las formas de violencia comprendidas en el ámbito de la presente Convención”.

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Gamag-Europe afgan women: journalists, judges and teachers

The win of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of international forces in August has put on hold the advances that the country and women and girls in particular have benefited from in the last two decades. And not only that, but they are in clear setback and danger.

Few people have been evacuated compared to all those left at the mercy of the new Afghan government, ruled by Sharia. This Government has abolished the Ministry of Women’s Affairs by the so-called Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

The education of girls, the minimal rights acquired by women, the lack of freedom of expression and the vulnerability of women in jobs directly linked to the rule of law such as the judiciary and journalism are in danger.

Faced with this situation, Gamag-Europe, in tune with the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), has decided to undertake specific actions to support women and girls and journalists, educators and judges in particular:

1.- In collaboration with the IFJ, try to help three Afghan women journalists to leave the country.

2.- On October 21, a webinar will be held at 12.00 (EDT) 16.00 PM (GMT) and 18.00 (CET)
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tdHC9HNpSLqWye_UW0kFUg

3.- Make an appeal to the European institutions.

4.-Actions at the national level with civil society organizations and unions.

Gamag-Europa calls on the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the European Institute for Gender Equality to take the necessary measures to:

1) Put pressure from the competent international organizations on the Government of Afghanistan in the face of the abuse of rights of the population, women and girls and journalists, educators and judges in particular.

2) Promote the reception and international protection of refugees from Afghanistan.

3) Give support to women’s organizations and platforms or media that work online from within and outside the country

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Castilla y León / Spain

GAMAG EUROPE (GE), with #SinEllasNoVoy (#I’mNotGoingWithoutThem)

We ask for your adherence to the Manifesto of the feminist journalists of Castilla y León so that the voice of women journalists is heard louder

• The program of the I International Congress of Journalism “Miguel Delibes” that is being held these days in Valladolid, Spain, only includes five women journalists compared to 19 men

• This distribution is unequal, does not represent the plurality of society and makes a good part of the sector invisible, which are women journalists.

Castilla y León, October 2, 2021

GAMAG-EUROPE (GE) supports the manifesto of the Association of Feminist Journalists of Castilla y León (APFCyL) in which it requests a rectification in the program of the I International Journalism Congress organized by the Miguel Delibes Foundation and the newspaper ‘El Norte de Castilla’ in Valladolid. The reason is the “pyrrhic representation left to women journalists in this congress.”

The APFCyL denounces the lack of parity “for reasons of proportionality and equity”, since the only women speakers who will attend the congress are: Mamen Mendizábal, Mara Torres, Lucía Méndez, Marisa R. Palop and the correspondent for Xinhua (China), Feng Junwei. The rest of the 19 participants are men, which is “a form of symbolic violence that undermines the achievements and contributions of so many good professional women (…) and the expectations of future women journalists who see that their referents are second-rate ”.

An unfair distribution that does not represent plurality and makes invisible a good part of the sector. In the Faculties of Journalism and Communication there are more than “60 per cent of female graduates” and “the newsrooms and press offices have an increasing proportion of female workforce”, says the association in the manifesto.

The feminist journalists of Castilla y León have launched a campaign on social networks under the hashtag #SinEllasNoVoy (#I’mNotGoingWithoutThem) for public institutions to withdraw their sponsorship of the I Congress of International Journalism until the panel of participants is rectified and “give women journalists the prominence they deserve”.

GAMAG-EUROPE (GE), in accordance with its principles of promoting equality in and through the media, shares and supports the APFCyL‘s protest about the underrepresentation of women journalists at the I International Journalism Congress organized by the Miguel Delibes Foundation.

GE is the European regional chapter of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), made up of a thousand people and groups, including the Association of Feminist Journalists of Castilla y León.

At GAMAG-EUROPE we believe in the strength of networks to give strength to local proposals in favor of equality in the media and professionals in the sector and so that global actions reach the smallest places.

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Castilla y León / España

GAMAG EUROPE (GE), con #SinEllasNoVoy

Pedimos vuestra adhesión al Manifiesto de las periodistas feministas de Castilla y León para que la voz de las periodistas se oiga con más fuerza

El programa del I Congreso Internacional de Periodismo “Miguel Delibes” que se celebra estos días en Valladolid, España, solo incluye a cinco mujeres periodistas frente a 19 hombres
Este reparto es poco equitativo, no representa la pluralidad de la sociedad e invisibiliza a una buena parte del sector que son las mujeres periodistas

Castilla y León, 2 de octubre de 2021

GAMAG-EUROPE (GE) apoya el manifiesto de la Asociación de Periodistas Feministas de Castilla y León (APFCyL) en el que solicita una rectificación en el programa del I Congreso Internacional de Periodismo organizado por la Fundación Miguel Delibes y el diario ‘El Norte de Castilla’ en Valladolid. El motivo es la “pírrica representación que dejan a las periodistas en este congreso”.

La APFCyL denuncia la falta de paridad “por razones de proporcionalidad y equidad”, ya que las únicas ponentes que acudirán al congreso son: Mamen Mendizábal, Mara Torres, Lucía Méndez, Marisa R. Palop y la corresponsal de Xinhua (China), Feng Junwei. El resto de los 19 participantes son varones, consiguiendo que se produzca “una forma de violencia simbólica que mina los logros conseguidos y las aportaciones de tantas y buenas profesionales (…) y las expectativas de las futuras periodistas que ven que sus referentes son de segunda categoría”.

Un reparto poco equitativo que no representa la pluralidad e invisibiliza a una buena parte del sector. En las facultades de Periodismo y Comunicación hay más de “un 60 por ciento de alumnas egresadas” y “las redacciones y los gabinetes de prensa cuentan cada vez con una mayor proporción de mano de obra femenina”, afirma la asociación en el manifiesto.

Las periodistas feministas de Castilla y León han lanzado una campaña en las redes sociales bajo el hashtag #SinEllasNoVoy para que las instituciones públicas retiren su patrocinio del I Congreso de Periodismo Internacional hasta que no rectifique el panel de participantes y “dé a las periodistas el protagonismo que se merecen”.

GAMAG-EUROPE (GE), conforme a sus principios de promoción de la igualdad en y a través de los medios de comunicación, comparte y apoya la protesta de la APFCyL sobre la escasa representación de mujeres periodistas en el I Congreso Internacional de Periodismo organizado por la Fundación Miguel Delibes.

GE es el capítulo regional europeo de la Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), integrado por un millar de personas y colectivos, incluida la Asociación de Periodistas Feministas de Castilla y León.

Desde GAMAG-EUROPE creemos en la fuerza de las redes para dar fuerza a las propuestas locales a favor de la igualdad en los medios de comunicación y las profesionales del sector y para que las acciones globales lleguen a los lugares más pequeños.