At the top of yet one more historic African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) November 1, 2024, individuals have known as for measures to guard journalists from assaults as they do their work.
In a press release adopted by the 450 journalists from greater than 30 African international locations, the individuals draw consideration to the International Day to End Impunity in opposition to journalists. A day celebrated by UNESCO to name for an finish to assaults in opposition to journalists that go unpunished.
It stated “this week marks the International Day to End Impunity against journalists, a day where UNESCO as the leading agency to protect and promote freedom of expression aims to remind us all that journalism is in danger and impunity remains in most of the cases where colleagues have been arrested, detained, threatened or killed.”
“We in Africa are usually not protected from this actuality – many journalists nonetheless work in life threatening circumstances. We are nonetheless being topics of killings for talking fact about corruption and human rights violations, we’re topic to bodily and digital assaults and in some instances the aims of those assaults are to prejudice and incentivize disinformation and hate in opposition to us and our work.
In many African international locations, legal guidelines are nonetheless getting used to criminalize or persecute us… and the listing goes on,” the assertion stated.
The AIJC is the biggest gathering of investigative journalists in Africa, held yearly by the Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The convention options workshops, shows, and panel discussions on finest practices.
Dr Denish Balliah, Director of the Wits Centre for Journalism, in her welcome tackle introduced the formation of the African Investigative Journalism Network.
The convention is the twentieth version. At the closing occasion, Beauregard Tromp, Convenor of the convention introduced that there are plans to rotate the internet hosting of the convention in different African international locations. The AIJC has all the time been held in South Africa.
Read the total particulars of the assertion under.
