is well known that women suffer discrimination in many spheres of social life in all countries of the world except one small exception. This event is much more pronounced and violent in Africa where women are even having to fight for their freedom and their lives because of this discrimination.
Reporters Without Borders has reported that to Agnès Uwimana Nkusi, director of the newspaper "Umurabyo" and another companion, Saidath Mukakibiki, awaiting the verdict of justice for the February 4, which will probably be sentenced to thirty-three and twelve years of imprisonment respectively. The two journalists have appeared in the Supreme Court on January 5, 2011, ie six months after his arrest and imprisonment-called "provisional."
In 2010, an election year has been very difficult and risky for an independent media journalism. Rwanda stands at about 178 countries ranked 169 in world rankings 2010 on press freedom drawn up by Reporters Without Borders, after Eritrea and Sudan, is the third lowest ranked African country. Another journalist Caddy
Adzuba the Okapi radio station of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been involved, from 9 to 12 November, at the XIX Congress of the World Association of Women Journalists and Writers, "Towards a new paradigm of communication the digital age. The challenges of equity ", in Buenos Aires. Participation of approximately 200 people from five continents. The media do not escape from the persistence of sexism in the world.
Congolese journalist has stressed: "The practice of journalism in my country is ten times harder being a woman, is a very hard and are really small. If it is committed to inform people on a permanent war zone since 1996, with about 4 million dead, more than 5 million displaced and countless human rights violations, the task is complicated for women, a collective mark by a secular and cultural discrimination now become armed rebel groups targeted by a campaign of systematic sexual violence in order to raze the social structures and economic rivals.
This reporter noted that the work of women in the profession was restricted to coffee and file papers and that cost him over ten years to prove he could information and do better than men.
From his work in the trenches information with the cost of a five-year exile and death threats, Adzuba Caddy believes that "there was a progress and evolution in ten years thanks to the courage of many women, because governments have never a gift and it all depends on the struggle of the people. " Even trust the Congolese conflict resolution latent "Everything is possible, nothing is impossible."
A Fund January 2011
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