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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

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

Solidarity with Belarus Journalists

GAMAG Europe, the European alliance for gender equality in media, expresses its strong solidarity with all Belarus journalists, regardless their media or political position, and our special concern with violence against women journalists in this country and everywhere.

According to the Belarusian Union of Journalists (BUJ), the Bielorussian Association of Journalists (BAJ), and other International organizations focused on press freedom and human rights, already 151 journalists have been detained in the country, some of them international correspondents, and 400 have been harassed and intimidated in the frame of the current political and civil conflict in the country, in Minsk and other Belarus cities since August.

We join calls of International and European Federations of Journalists and other professional organizations to assure freedom of expression in the country and everywhere and to stop the prosecutions against journalists and media workers, as well as to allow them to do their job and cover all the events freely. We specially call for the use of a non-hostile and non-sexist language in media and the respect to a professional code of ethics.

We call Belarus authorities, European institutions as well as international organisations and civil society to defend the press freedom and the right to information as basic human rights.

GE is shocked by the death of Ebru Timtik.

GAMAG EUROPE (GE) is shocked by the death of the Turkish-Kurdish lawyer, Ebru Timtik, a symbol of the struggle for human rights, after 238 days of hunger strike in a Turkish prison that she decided to pursue in order to demand a fair trial.

Timtik, who died on August 28, was sentenced to more than 13 years of prison along with 17 lawyers from the left-wing association “People’s Legal Office” (Halkın Hukuk Bürosu), a lawyers’ association that defends human rights. and that it is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish law. Timtik is the fourth person in the DHKP-C who dies this year as a result of a “death fast.”

GAMAG EUROPE, the European alliance for gender equality in the media, condemns the deterioration of human rights in Turkey and the lack of freedoms, as well as the deficiencies of the judiciary system in this country. We also claim the EU and other international authorities to investigate and condemn these attacks against human rights.