UNESCO Organizes Roundtable on Libyan Women.
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Tripoli, 6 May 2015(Lana) The United Nations Education, Science
and Culture Organisation projects bureau in Tripoli, in collaboration
with the Women Empowerment Office at the UN Support Mission in Libya,
hosted a roundtable on Libyan women, information and peace.
The roundtable, held under the theme 'let journalism triumph in
better covered news and media safety in digital era', came on the eve
of the celebration of 'international day of freedom of the press, in
Tripoli.
Discussions and presentations dealt mainly with the role of
Libyan women journalists in upgrading of the information narrative
and the challenges down that road.
Violations and harassment of freedom of the press in recent years
on the local level, notably the assassinations and assaults on local
and foreign journalists, were also debated.
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