The third welcome evening for new members of En-GAJE took place on 16 March at the Press Club Brussels Europe. It has almost become a tradition: a buffet and music provided
the backdrop for this gathering. The association’s management team and the new members from the previous welcome event got to know Luka (Georgia), Armel (Cameroon), Prudence (Rwanda), Noëlla (DRC/Rwanda) and Tina (DRC) better.
Every week, two journalists are murdered in the world, more than 2,600 since 1990, according to figures from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world’s leading professional organization with more than 600,000 members. Today, more than 350 are imprisoned, including 160 in Turkey, and several hundred, many of them women, are harassed, abused and abused on a daily basis. They are murdered, jailed, harassed because they are journalists, because they want to fulfill their mission of informing, a pillar of any self-respecting democracy. It is often to avoid these extreme situations, which they know and experience daily, that some journalists decide to leave everything, to go into exile