World Press Freedom Day

Journalists across the Mediterranean are facing mounting challenges in carrying out their profession due to an increasingly oppressive media environment in the region. When they do not pay with their lives after publishing brave investigative work, like Gauri Lankesh (India) and Daphne Caruana Galizia (Malta), both assassinated in 2017, women journalists are more often than not hindered by the authorities they disturb. They are threatened by Decree 54 in Tunisia, imprisoned in Turkey when addressing the Kurdish question, harassed by agro-food lobbies in France, while in Palestine , they find themselves "stuck between the occupation’s bullets and the oppression of the authorities". Additionally, media outlets in Algeria, as in many other countries, frequently perpetuate harmful stereotypes and objectify women and girls, promoting sexist attitudes and the commodification of their bodies.

Articles:

Journalist Kenza Khattou from Algeria: “Finally… I can now write about my experience behind bars”, by the Algerian journalist Kenza Khattou

How does Decree-law 54 target the role of investigative journalism in Tunisia?, by the Tunisian journalist Sana Adouni

Les femmes journalistes en Algérie ou l’invisibilité organisée, by the French-Algerian journalist Ghania Khelifi

When information leads to murder… the cases of Gauri Lankesh and Caruana Galizia, by the French journalist Nathalie Galesne.

The cost of standing up against Erdoğan's policies: how three Turkish ‘sheroes’ paid the price, by the Italian journalist Federica Araco

Women in the Algerian media: Stereotypes and sexist hatred, by the Algerian journalist Ghania Khelifi

Women in Tunisian media: stuck between political exploitation and commodification for entertainment, by the Tunisian journalist Sana Adouni

Palestinian journalists, stuck between the occupation’s bullets and the oppression of the authorities, by the Palestinian journalist Alaa Murrar

Who’s afraid of Morgan Large?, by the French journalist Dominique Fromentin