Journalists, experts and representatives of feminist media from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe will gather at the first International Meeting of Feminist Media on 4 and 5 November at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico City. Participants will take part in panel discussions, keynote dialogues and workshops held to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (2 November).
The meeting will bring together experiences from different regions on the conditions under which journalism is practised, and the necessary changes in newsrooms and narratives to safeguard freedom of expression, the safety of women journalists, strengthen their professional skills, and contribute to greater representation of women.
The meeting is convened by the Comunicación e Información de la Mujer (Women Communications and Information ) civil society organization and news agency, or CIMAC, in collaboration with UNESCO and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with support from the Women’s Equality Center, the Mexican Feminist Foreign Policy Network, the National Network of Journalists, Spanish Cooperation, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Canon.
The activities are organized around the following themes: the trajectories of feminist journalism and its challenges in the global context, including a review of 100 years of progress; violence and attacks against journalists; essential changes in the media and proposals to strengthen feminist journalism; and future agendas to sustain and transform journalism in the face of current and emerging political, economic and technological challenges.
Participants will include Jineth Bedoya Lima (Colombia), the 2020 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize laureate, and a leading advocate in the fight against violence targeting women journalists and impunity.
The gender dimension is particularly relevant given that the UNESCO Observatory of Killed Journalists has recorded a total of 27 killings of women journalists worldwide between 2022 and 2026, with fewer than 4% of cases considered resolved.
