Sophie Boutboul (France) is a member of the freelance journalists collective Youpress.

Their latest collective investigative project is the international investigation Femmes à abattre, on "political feminicides", the gender-based political assassinations of women human rights defenders, elected officials and journalists around the world.

She is also the co-author with Alizé Bernard of Silence, on cogne. Investigation on domestic violence suffered by wives of gendarmes and police officers (Grasset, 2019). She works on gender-based violences for Mediapart and La Déferlante.

(Photo credit: Sébastien Calvet)

Sophie Boutboul

Info

Name
Sophie Boutboul
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Feminism, gender, inequality
Country
France
City
Parijs

Supported projects

Femmes à abattre

  • Equality
  • Politics
  • Security

BRUSSELS - These women weren’t leading  the same battles, walking in the same streets or speaking in the same forums. Yet they were all victims of the same crime:  political feminicide.