Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.
Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.
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This session will highlight findings about the nature of online harassment against women journalists where there are prevalent extreme right-wing and left-wing voices. Drawing on information gathered by CPJ from journalists around the globe, the roundtable discussion will be explore possible solutions and approaches for tackling these challenges. It will open with an overview of CPJ’s most recent research and findings about online harassment against women journalists. This will focus on four countries with prominent extremist communities: Italy, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The presentation will unpack the nature of these gendered threats, and the experiences of the journalists on the receiving end. These findings will anchor the discussion, which will seek to identify both recommendations and an understanding of resources available from the diverse group of participants. A focus on solutions-oriented, pragmatic approach to understanding how organizations can better support women journalists in a variety of contexts, CPJ will share the responses of both newsrooms and individuals from the countries studied, and invite others to share their own findings and solutions.
