Category: Human Rights

On 25 October, Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič, is in Germany, to visit a full-scale civil protection exercise funded by the European Commission. The Magnitude exercise simulates a scenario of a devastating earthquake. Participants to the exercise include European response teams from Austria, Greece, France, Switzerland, as well as 12 German response teams, eight […]

Organization IREX Location Washington, DC Deadline Open until filled This position will support programming in Information & Media Practices. Program topics may include media development, media and information literacy, media research, and journalist security. The role will include supporting the reporting, financial management, procurement and the sub granting process. There will be regular communication with […]

On October 10, the Tangiers Court of Cassation overturned the 2019 conviction of a man for raping his wife, which had been hailed as Morocco’s first ruling to explicitly criminalize marital rape. By referring the case back to the Tangiers Appeals Court, which had sentenced the man to two years imprisonment and ordered him to pay a […]

Frontex, the EU border agency, does not normally inform nongovernmental rescue ships in the Mediterranean when it spots boats in distress or regularly issue emergency alerts. This has contributed to avoidable delays and tragic shipwrecks as well as to people being forcibly returned to countries where they face abuse. A new campaign asks Frontex to […]

It didn’t take long for IStories to become one of the most prominent investigative news sites in Russia. In December 2020, only a few months after its founding, the outlet released a deep-dive into Vladimir Putin’s daughter and son-in-law. “He, as a dictator, doesn’t like when people investigate the corruption within his family. And the […]

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) is the premier international gathering of investigative and data journalists, held once every two years. In 2025, the conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from November 20-24, and is being co-hosted by GIJN and Malaysiakini, an independent online news outlet created in 1999 that has been recognized […]

Organization Arena for Journalism in Europe Location Remote Deadline 3 November 2024 The Logistics Coordinator will support Arena on a number of logistical tasks across the organisation, but the key area is event organisation. Arena hosts two annual conferences: the Dataharvest conference in Mechelen, Belgium, a gathering for investigative journalists from across Europe, and Climate […]

That’s according to a group of independent UN human rights experts who said in a statement released on Wednesday they are urgently seeking confirmation of reports regarding the death of Roshchyna, who was forcibly disappeared in August 2023.  The uncertainty surrounding her fate has inflicted anguish on her family, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts […]

This October and November, member representatives of GIJN will vote to elect seven members of the 15-person Board of Directors. Voting will take place between October 28 and November 11, 2024. Below is a list of candidates who have submitted their names for GIJN’s Board of Directors. GIJN members can vote for a maximum of four […]