Libya’s Long Road to Freedom of Information
On the 10th of December 1948, representatives of 58 countries from all parts of the world came together in Paris to write world history. The group members of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human…
From Tunisia to Libya: Peace-building female journalists
From my quarantine room in one of the capital city’s hotels in Tunis, I sat facing my computer’s camera to participate in an online workshop for Tunisian and Libyan female journalists in the framework of the “Gender and Media Forum on…
Supporting a new culture of fact checking in Libya
Fake news are dangerous. They can threaten social stability and even endanger human lives. This was one of the main topics that a group of journalists from all over Libya discussed during a 10-day-training on the “Basics of Fact Checking”…
COVID-19: both a challenge and an opportunity for democracy
On International Day of Democracy, the EU reaffirms its willingness to take a leadership role on democracy, working ever harder in supporting those who defend it, build it and hold decision makers accountable in these difficult times
The…
Reflections on Libya’s journey in fact checking
Validity, trustworthiness and credibility
In October 2019, Deutsche Welle Akademie Project funded by the European Union ”Media in Libya – Stability Through Reconciliation“ started an ambitious program to help Libyan journalists become…
“حدود [Hudood]”
Boundaries! Limits! Borders!
On the last day of the documentary film training program carried out within Deutsche Welle Akademie Project funded by the European Union ”Media in Libya – Stability Through Reconciliation“, the time had finally…
“Sisyphus”
Documentary films and reconciliation in Libya
The selected participants of the 3rd part of the documentary film workshop, which the Deutsche Welle Akademie held in Tunis as part of its project funded by the European Union " Media in…
“Script, Script, Script”
Documentary films and reconciliation in Libya
What will be one of the lasting memories of the first documentary film workshop that Deutsche Welle Akademie conducted in Tunis as part of its "Media in Libya - Stability through…
Here come Libya’s fact checkers!
As their country is being ravaged by war and division, a group of 16 ambitious Libyan journalists defied the odds by uniting behind the main principle of journalism, uncovering the facts. A week-long training session was conducted in…
Uncovering potential
Libyan CSOs tell powerful messages
Sometimes, a workshop develops into something more than acquiring or practicing skills and allows for new and valuable insights: "It was the first time that the CSO's of Libya had the possibility to…