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Voices under Siege: Standing with Kashmir

Just as apartheid could not be normalised by time or silence, neither can the systematic denial of human rights in Kashmir

The funeral of journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Maryam Abu Daqqa, killed in the Israeli army’s bombing of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on 25 August . Photos: Mahmoud Bassam

Gaza: Where wearing a Press vest is a death sentence

What it means for journalists to bear witness of their colleagues being targeted and killed while they bear witness to the genocide in Gaza

Anas al-Sharif

Editorial: Condemn Israel killing journalists

More than 190 members of the media have now been killed in the war in Gaza, some of them deliberately targeted and assassinated

The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Reporting from the West: A return to reason?

Influential people in parts of the media, civil society and academia in South Africa echoed Western narratives without scrutiny, but now the tide is slowly turning

A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady
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A movement against silencing: What the war in Palestine has taught us about journalism

More journalists have been killed since 7 October 2023 than during the two World Wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan combined

Two journalist brothers, Ahmed Abu Soheil and his sister Zahra Abu Soheil, lost their lives as a result of an Israeli army attack, on November 9, 2024 in Gaza City, Gaza. Five people, including women and children, were killed and many others were injured when the Israeli army targeted the Fahd al-Sabah School in Jaffa Street in Gaza City, where displaced Palestinians took shelter. (Photo by Karam Hassan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel ‘silences’ journalists: 188 killed since 7 October 2023

‘Wearing a helmet and a bullet-proof vest with the word “Press” on it no longer guarantees protection, but rather makes you a target’

A rights group has said that since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Under Nigeria’s Tinubu, journalists are as unsafe as ever

Since Bola Tinubu became president last year, there have been several attacks on members of the media, rights group says