Programmes Available for Arab World & Middle East Meetings in Casablanca

Beyond the Arab Spring - New Road Map for Journalists


WHAT: IFJ Regional Meeting in the Arab World & Middle East

WHERE: Casablanca, 27-30 October


The IFJ’s Regional Meeting for the Arab World and Middle East region is taking place in Casablanca, Morocco. The focus of the regional meeting is ‘Beyond the Arab Spring: New Road Map for Journalists.’ It is expected that 19 journalists unions from the Arab World and the Middle East will meet to discuss the effect of the last three years on the work of journalists in the region. This will include discussion about the crisis of safety and impunity, press freedom and media reform, collective agreements and gender equality. The calendar of events is as follows:

27 October

- Working Group on Collective Bargaining in the Media Sector. View the programme HERE-Gender Equality policies and Trade-Union Rights in the Media in the Southern Mediterranean (organised by the MedMedia project, a consortium of organisations that includes the IFJ as a member). View the programme HERE

28-30 October

IFJ Regional Meeting - Beyond the Arab Spring: New Road Map for Journalists. Read the full programme HERE