Reports in the running for the 2024 MFP journalism prize – rts.ch

1. Radio France – “Iran: this youth who no longer wants the compulsory veil”

The report was recorded more than a year after the movement “Woman, Life, Liberty” in Iran. In this country that is difficult to access for journalists, Radio France took the opportunity of legislative elections organized in the country to obtain a visa from the authorities and give a voice to Iranian women. On site, Timour Öztürk worked in pairs with the fixer and translator Zina Shah Safdari. From the affluent streets of northern Tehran, to the university district and the offices of a presidential advisor, this report attempts to show the persistence of the revolt of Iranian women against the law of the Islamic Republic, their courage striking, despite the repression.

2. - – “A man in search of his origins”

Quebec is very slowly lifting the veil on adoption archives, shrouded in the greatest secrecy for decades. From the 1920s to the 1970s, babies born out of wedlock were entrusted to nurseries run by nuns, while waiting to find an adoptive family. The weight of the Catholic Church created a climate of shame for mothers. They lived with this secret their whole lives. But these grown children now want to know. This is the case of Jean-Luc Danis, 65, who embarked on a desperate quest to know his father’s name, after obtaining that of his mother, too late to see her again during her lifetime. Supported by his wife and guitar and singing companion, he experiences checkered emotions as he advances, because the quest for origins does not only reserve good surprises. A report by Myriam Fimbry.

3. RFI – “Israel-Palestine: the story of two children cut down by war”

Two little girls: Hind Rajab, Palestinian from Gaza, and Noya Dan-Jaoui, Israeli from a border kibbutz in the enclave. Two stories of children cut down by war with part of their families. The two little girls are dead: one killed by the Israeli army, the other shot dead on October 7 by Hamas. A common point: sound recordings document their last moments of life. Sami Boukhelifa spoke with the mother of each of them.

4. RTBF – “Pass-ages: being born and dying in serenity”

Being born and dying, the beginning and the end, 2 moments, 2 essential passages linked to our existence. Two passages often experienced very differently. Birth is by definition a joy, experienced together, while death is often experienced alone, at home or in the hospital. Faced with this observation, an innovative project was created in Brussels. It is unique in Europe, and it allows birth and dying, the process which precedes death, to be put back at the center of existence. This project is called pass-ages, in 2 words. Passages works in collaboration with hospitals and palliative care services. It offers a caring place, run by the volunteers who live in this group housing, to accompany the beginning and end of a life as peacefully as possible. Francoise Wallemacq and Christophe Bernard went there. They first met a couple who wanted to give birth to their child in this different place.

5. RTS – “Voice note from Maurine Mercier in Kharkiv”

Western security services speak of a gloomy outlook for Ukraine this year. Major territory losses. kyiv does not release figures, but hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have already lost their lives since the start of the large-scale war. Russian troops are advancing. And the front is approaching Kharkiv. The country’s second city suffers a continuous flow of bombs. Ukraine is forced to mobilize to make up for the gigantic losses. Our correspondent on site Maurine Mercier went to Kharkiv. She regularly sends voice notes to Eric Guevara-Frey, the presenter of Tout un monde, the international current affairs show on RTS Première.