Brussels,   31^st   May   2009

The women and men representing  press workers' unions around the world, in the frame of  the World Conference on "Ethics and Gender", who met in Brussels on 30^th  and 31^st  of May:

Exhort, especially, the governments of Colombia and Mexico to guaranty the security, physical integrity and personal welfare of women journalists threatened to death, assaulted or harassed. 
They demand the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to promote policies of urgent help to women journalists exiled, threatened, attacked, harassed and displaced colleagues.

They appeal to the Gender Council to pay special attention to the problems of women and their families in situation of exile.