Double jeopardy Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
In the contemporary world of journalism, female reporters face a double jeopardy: they are increasingly targeted both as journalists and as women – particularly in repressive regimes and misogynistic societies.
As the United Nations intensifies its campaign for women’s rights worldwide – even as it annually commemorates World Press Freedom Day on May 3 – one of the questions lingering in the minds of women activists is: Is press freedom incompatible with gender empowerment?
Marianna Belalba Barreto, Civic Space Cluster Lead at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance based in Johannesburg, told
IPS the
CIVICUS Monitor has documented many cases of women journalists facing online harassment and the gendered nature of it.
Gendered violence online: Cybersecurity for whom?
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Cyber violence against women is defined as a form of gender-based violence (GBV) carried out through digital means. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically heightened the risk and incidence of violence against women both online and offline: the Australian eSafety Commissioner reported a 50% increase in domestic and cyber violence reports since March 2020. Globally, Facebook remains the most common platform for gendered violence online, followed closely by Instagram and WhatsApp. These developments show that special consideration must be given to the role of digital platforms in facilitating violence against women, and that policy solutions regarding violence against women must also consider the online context where that violence often takes place and escalates in plain sight.
Lebanon is experiencing an economic crisis partly fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic and aggravated by the catastrophic explosion that tore through Beirut last August.
Randa Yassir, executive director of youth and women’s rights NGO the Smart Center, explains here how deteriorating conditions may have grim consequences for gender equality and freedom of speech.
IWPR: What progress has there been in Lebanon in recent years for women’s rights in general and their freedom of expression in particular?
Randa Yassir: Although Lebanon used to be considered one of the freest countries in the Arab world, there has still been little progress in most areas of gender equality.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) - Our deadliest nightmare is back: Political assassinations in Lebanon is back with the horrific murder of Luqman Slim, a vocal critic of Hezbollah. Slim’s assassination is the first killing of a high-profile activist and outspoken journalist in years. What do the political assassinations in Lebanon tell us about the history of this country?
Lebanon, the Sectarian Pie
People are often baffled by Lebanon’s complex governing system. This small country was always subjected to sectarian tensions, where different sects historically competed for power. Those ancient tensions had disastrous consequences dragging the country into 15 years of a bloody civil war. In 1989, the Taif agreement ended the war and ensured that this pie, Lebanon, is equally divided among the different sects. Everyone must have a slice of the pie. This fragile power sharing system, led to fragile peace and turned Lebanon in to a victim of political, social and economic paral
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