• Version
• Download 103
• File Size 2.31 MB
• File Count 1
• Create Date 23/11/2023
• Last Updated 23/11/2023

Uganda Report-Gender Dimensions of Safety of Journalists

The findings reveal that civic space continues to shrink and particularly women journalists and media workers are faced with gender-based violence in form of stigmatization, sexist hate speech, trolling, physical assault, rape and even murder which impacts on their well-being, their work and press freedom at large. Governments have shown compromised willingness or capacity to ensure freedom of expression, access to information and protect particularly female journalists.