Safety of Women Journalists
Selected Resources on Safety of Women Journalists
- OSCE, “Safety of Women Journalists Online” (SOFJO);
- CHAYN, DIY Online Security Guide for Every Woman;
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, Surveillance Self-Defense: tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications;
- Digital Defenders Partnership, Support to human rights defenders under digital threat;
- Tactical Tech, The Glass Room: Misinformation Edition;
- International Press Institute (IPI): IPI launches new video tutorials on online harassment;
- International Federation of Journalists: Byte Back Campaign – against online abuse!;
- BBC, Inside Europe Blog, “Twitter Abuse: Women journalists get more threats”, (2015);
- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, New Challenges to Freedom of Expression: Countering Online Abuse of Female Journalists (2016);
- UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, UN experts urge Stats and companies to address online gender-based abuse but warn against censorship (2017);
- OSCE Resource Guide on the Safety of Female Journalists Online for policy makers (2020);
- ARTICLE 19’s policy briefing on Online Harassment and Abuse against Women Journalists and Major Social Media Platform (2020);
- ARTICLE 19’s policy briefing on Investigating Online Harassment and Abuse against Women Journalists (2020);
- MOOC “Online Harassment: Strategies for Journalists’ Defense” (scheduled on 16 November 2020);
- “Online Violence: The New Front Line for Women Journalists”, Julie Posetti, ICFJ (2020);
- “Alarming evidence of online attacks on women journalists leading to ‘real world’ violence”, ICFJ and UNESCO published on Rappler (2020). The article was also published on DW;Al Jazeera;The Independent;The Conversation and The Quint;
- International Women’s Media Foundation, Global Report on Status of Women in News Media (2011);
- International Women’s Media Foundation, Global research project investigates violence against women journalists (2013);
- International News Safety Institute (INSI) and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IMWF), “Violence and Harassment Against Women in the News Media: A Global Picture” (2014);
- Where Are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages (2014);
- UN Women, Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific (2015);
- Article 19 and Association of Media Women in Kenya, Women Journalist’s Digital Security (2016);
- CPJ, Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide (2016);
- European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Gender Statistics Database (2017);
- International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) and Trollbusters, “Attacks and Harassment. The Impact on Female Journalists and Their Reporting” (2018);
- International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), “IFJ Survey: two-thirds of women journalists suffered gender-based online attacks” (2018);
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, “Women Journalists and Freedom of Expression” (2018);
- European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Women’s Reporting Point;
- International Press Institute (IPI), Newsroom Best Practices for Addressing Online Violence against Journalists (2019);
- International Media Support (IMS), “The safety of women journalists: Breaking the cycle of silence and violence” (2019);
- European Broadcaster’s Union (EBU), “All Things Being Equal: Gender Equality Guidelines from Public Service Media” (2019);
- Women’s Media Center, Status of Women in U.S. Media (2019);
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović, (2020).
- “Half the story is never enough: Threats facing women journalists” (2020)
- Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Sexism's toll on journalism”(2021)
