About Right to Safety

Right to Safety fellowship is a two months program that provides training and coaching for 20 journalists in order for them to produce in-depth reports on the right to safety in all its aspects in society. The fellowship is organised by ARIJ in cooperation with Free Press Unlimited (FPU) for journalists and media graduates who didn’t work on investigative reports before, to shed the light on problems that affect people’s health and safety, loopholes in rules, systems, regulations and any measures that could undermine the wellbeing of the workforce or which could harm human beings and their communities.

This fellowship is geared to receive participants from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

This is part of a larger fellowship programme, co-funded by the EU and managed by a Consortium of FPU and IMS, to support independent media outlets in the Middle East and North Africa. The content to be produced will be the responsibility of FPU and ARIJ and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union’.

This fellowship offers remote training sessions on physical and cyber security for journalists, empowers fellows to produce in-depth professional and creative reports, and provides the opportunity for 7 fellows to attend the 15th ARIJ Annual Forum in Amman, Jordan in December 2022, to take part in a ‘hackathon’ on journalists’ Right to Safety.