“THE INFORMATION BATTLEFIELD: DIGITAL WARFARE, CENSORSHIP, AND RISKS TO WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN CONFLICT”
World Press Freedom Day – OHCHR Side Event
Welcoming Remarks
Christina Meinecke, OHCHR Regional Representative for Europe
Good afternoon, and welcome to the UN House in Brussels.
I am pleased to welcome you on behalf of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to this interactive dialogue: “The Information Battlefield: Digital Warfare, Censorship, and Risks to Women Journalists in Conflict”, co-hosted by OHCHR-Sudan, OHCHR-Palestine and ARTICLE 19.
We would like to open this space for conversation, bringing together journalists and media activists from Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine, along with press freedom advocates, humanitarian actors, and policymakers.
Together, we are here to shed some light on the challenges to media freedom in conflict, by sharing experiences, learning from each other’s work and identifying areas of coordination and collaboration.
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