Awareness-raising on safety of women journalists
Last update:16 May 2023
To raise public awareness on the safety of women journalists UNESCO launched the awareness raising campaign ! on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, and collaborated with UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression to publish , which chronicles the personal experiences of harassment by eleven journalists from ten countries.
In 2019, UNESCO also organized a in cooperation with Members of the Group of Friends for the Safety of Journalists at UNESCO that brought together over 200 Member State representatives, journalists and legal professionals.