An RFI report by Noé Pignède wins the Philippe Chaffanjon 2022 prize
Domestic workers hold a banner in Arabic that reads: “Abolish the kafala system.
Stop trying to evict illegal domestic workers,” during a rally to mark International Domestic Workers Day, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 24, 2018. © AP - Bilal Hussein
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Correspondent for four years for RFI, Noé Pignède covers Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
For his report on African women exploited in Lebanese households, he is co-winner of the Philippe Chaffanjon prize, which rewards a French journalist and a Haitian journalist each year.
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Thank you to all of you, and to each one personally.
To you who have listened to my story, and to those who will listen to it in the future.
Even though my wound remains open and bleeds every time I think about it or talk about it, this report has, I hope, healed the wounds of some of us...
” The reaction of Viany, 28 and a domestic worker in Lebanon, sums up the importance of the report produced by Noé Pignède and awarded the
Philippe Chaffanjon prize
on Thursday June 2 .
The journalist read his testimony during the award ceremony to remind us that journalism is not there to celebrate the producer but the subject of the report and its raison d'être.
Lebanon: the ordeal of African domestic workers
Lebanon: the ordeal of African domestic workers
Noah Pignede
The audio report by Noé Pignède in Lebanon, to be found above, was
published on RFI in January 2021
and gives voice to the kafalas, these women from Asia and Africa, domestic workers.
They work with Lebanese families, often 7 days a week, fifteen hours a day, for a few hundred dollars a month, and are regularly mistreated.
The Kafala, which gives its name to these women, is a truly institutionalized system.
Since the 1970s, Lebanon has brought in hundreds of thousands of precarious women: today there are nearly 300,000 of them for five million inhabitants.
Co-winner deals with kidnappings in Haiti
The co-winner is Milo Milfort, a Haitian journalist, awarded for a multimedia report on the constant increase in kidnappings in Haiti.
A production made for Enquet'Action to be found here.
Milo Milfort @milforthaiti has just received his award for "Kidnapping in Haiti: Trapped by Fear" Philippe Chaffanjon Prize 2022 pic.twitter.com/iv2NTks39F
– Frantz Duval (@Frantzduval) June 2, 2022
The Phillippe Chaffanjon Prize, created in 2013 in honor of the great reporter of RTL and Radio France, aims to develop field reporting and encourage young talent in journalism in Haiti.
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