Truth exposed: “Forbidden coverage of Women’s rights”

In commemoration of International Women’s day Reporters without borders or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has published a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden subject”. The report examines the treatment of journalists reporting on women’s rights around the world during the period 2012 – 2017. 90 journalists were found to have their rights seriously violated, this included 11 journalists who were murdered and 25 who were physically attacked. Attacks and harassment on social media still continue for 40 of those affected.

Journalists should not have to risk their lives in order to cover women’s rights in 2018 but unfortunately they do in many parts of the world,” according to a statement by RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire.

 

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2 Comments

  1. prophet for a profit
    March 8, 2018

    In truth i say it is women that have Dominica the way it is today. Mothers are the first and sometimes last teachers of their children. these days we have a serious productivity problem. Too many women doing nothing but making children and asking for handouts. too much yout sitting at home doing nothing under their mother roof. I could never just agree i staying home, not going school not working in my mother or grandmother’s house. I would get blows because i had to be productive, and working toward self advancement. Today we have high unemployment, but for many it is by choice. they choose to be unemployed, and i blame the parents, especially the mothers because many of them still live in their mother’s or grandmother’s house.

    • Anon
      March 8, 2018

      There is a problem when we try to put the responsibility of the country’s state solely on women. The truth is for many years, men have not been stepping up and dealing with their responsibilities. Caribbean women on a whole are seriously overburdened when it comes to child rearing. That is not a task meant for one person. Shoving your children onto their grandmothers or relying on mothers to bring up children alone is a sign of a broken society. But perhaps women really are to blame because they accept mediocrity from the men in their lives, and raise sons that are just as mediocre.

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