By Hamad Rashid / The Loyal Media.
The Union to Union (UTU) has held its two-day meeting in Kenya discussing improvements to programs that have been implemented over three years.
The meeting started on the 14th and ended on the 15th of November 2024 was held under UTU, a project initiated by the International Federation of Journalists through its Africa office for the Central African zone, DRC, Cameroon, Chad, and Congo Brazzaville.
The Vice President of USYPAC, Denise SAYE participated in a meeting with the Secretary General of SNPP from DRC.
Kenya Union of Journalists was one of the hosts of the meeting.
According to the information we received from Denise SAYE, the meeting was aimed to share experiences between the participants, and good practices on what your unions have been able to do regarding the various themes highlighted in the project that has been working on for three years, after the last meeting held in Cameroon 2023.
Denise SAYE standing in the middle
Areas discussed and strategized include: –
- Recruitment of young journalists working online into the union and recruitment of freelance journalists and their inclusion in the union’s activities.
- Labour rights issues – engaging media owners in signing collective agreements, working conditions, and contract issues.
- Freedom of association and the right to organize – ILO Conventions 87 and 98.
- Media law reform – decriminalization of defamation and insult laws and other laws that hamper media freedom.
- Safety and security of journalists, especially women journalists working online, and the issue of impunity.
- Sexual harassment in the workplace and the need for union policies and frameworks on sexual harassment in the workplace (ILO Convention 190).
- Design annual campaigns for the recruitment of young journalists
8. Develop 3-5-year strategic plans to give the union a clear vision of what it wants to achieve in the short term.
9. The new challenge: media, climate change and migration.
Some of participants during the Meeting
