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<b><span style="font-size:30.0pt; line-height:125%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#C92020; letter-spacing:-.75pt">IFJ calls to ratify Convention 190 on violence and harassment</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:red">Brussels, March 5 2020 - </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">To mark International
Women's Day on 8th March, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges world governments to ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work and help reduce the "unacceptable" level
of violence against women journalists.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060"><a href="https://ifj.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=312d2086b1b5654e5e6957dd9&id=84de813f89&e=6008114e8a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#C92020">Convention
190</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060"> was adopted by the International Labor Organization (ILO) on 10th June 2019 and is now in the process of ratification by Member States. The
IFJ and other Global Unions Federations have been battling for several years in support of a convention that would outlaw gender-based violence at work.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#0D0D0D">According to </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#C00000"><a href="https://ifj.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=312d2086b1b5654e5e6957dd9&id=fe94255315&e=6008114e8a" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#C00000">IFJ
statistics</span></a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#0D0D0D">65% of women journalists have experienced violence at work, either in newsrooms, in relation to their sources, at home, on
the way home or online.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#0D0D0D"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">It can take the
form of physical attacks, unwanted touching, sexual comments, online abuse, threats and intimidations in all their forms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">The IFJ has reiterated that violence and harassment have devastating implications for the targeted journalist as her well-being, her work, her private life
and , by extension, press freedom are affected. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">The new Convention protects all media workers irrespective of their status. It makes violence and harassment a health and safety issue, forcing media employers
to include violence and harassment when managing occupational health and safety issues.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">It covers gender-based violence including sexual harassment, bullying, stalking as well as as online abuse. Convention 190 also covers domestic violence because
it can have a serious impact on one's mental health and performance at work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said: " <i>The level of violence facing women journalists is unacceptable and is often gender-based. Once a state ratifies
the Convention, it becomes legally binding and we expect women journalists to receive stronger support from their employer when they become a target of harassment and violence. We urge our affiliates to campaign nationally for a ratification of this desperately -needed
convention</i> ".</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">IFJ gender council chair Maria Angeles Samperio said: "<i>Gender-based violence is a rampant phenomenon in journalism and has led many women to self-censor.
It is time for governments to be responsible and make a change. And it is time for media employers to ban harassment and violence from their work places, including online</i><b>. </b>"</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#606060">Unions can already take action to make a change by informing their members about the Convention, including language on ending violence and harassment at work
in collective bargaining agreements and working with the media to develop sound policies on health and safety that include violence and harassment and more specifically gender-based violence.</span></p>
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