Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Zaina Erhaim is an awards' winning Syrian journalist, named the journalist of the year by Reporters without Boarders in 2015, and among the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women by Arabian Business in 2016. Recently she received the first Annita Ausuburg Award for Rebel Woman Against the War, provided by Women International League for Peace and Freedom. Follow her @ZainaErhaim.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow international organisations can prioritise human rightsUntil those working in the Global South introduce new rights measures, we are ‘testifying in a court where the...
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in SyriaWhen Zaina became a journalist, her family said she was committing a ‘sin’. Fifteen years on, she opens up about the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen activists in the Middle East face online bullying and sexual harassmentA growing wave of online bullying and sexual harassment is forcing many women and feminist activists to abandon the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe battle between Syrian secular activists and feminists: we all loseYet another pushback for Syrian women to leave the public spaces for the powerful men who behave as if these spaces...