As part of the Women Journalists in and from North Africa project, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) is proud to release The Realities and Recourse for Women Journalists in and from North Africa, a research report that documents the key challenges, risks, and threats experienced by women journalists in North Africa as a result of their work. The report also presents the legal pathways that may be available to them outside of their countries of origin.
The report, which is available in English and Arabic, asks and sheds light on a number of key questions. Amid an alarming phenomena of a deteriorating state for press freedom across North Africa, how are women journalists faring? What challenges, risks, and violations do women journalists working in North Africa face as a result of their work? When they experience these violations, what legal pathways do they have available to them to document the violations they have experienced and see remedy or justice in response?
Built on extensive desk research and a focus group convening that brought together more than 20 women journalists from and in North Africa to reflect on their lived experiences and those of their fellow colleagues, the report highlights key trends, features paradigmatic examples between 2019 and 2023, and ends with a series of practical recommendations.