Annette Young

Paris

Journalist and Presenter at France 24

Senior Journalist & Presenter @FRANCE24. Also creator & host of the @_51percent. Talks a lot about #equality. And yes, I do have an Australian accent.

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Articles

How AI is reinventing misogyny

2 weeks ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. As artificial intelligence continues to transform societies worldwide, The 51 Percent asks what does its rapid development mean for women and girls.
How AI is reinventing misogyny

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Annette Young |Stéphanie Cheval |Yong Chim |Sonia Baritello

14 hours agoIt apparently took just days to make using Google’s new text-to-video generator, Veo 3. If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform …
Women of the sea

3 weeks ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Annette Young meets Swiss sailor, Justine Mettraux, who was the first woman to cross the finish line of the 2025 Vendée Globe; the solo round-the-world race. She set the record for the fastest result ever by a woman.
Nigerian women forced into prostitution in Senegal

4 weeks ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. While eastern Senegal is experiencing a gold rush, our team on the ground report how the mining boom has seen an explosion in prostitution with hundreds of Nigerian women being trafficked into the region.
Nigerian women forced into prostitution in Senegal

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Annette Young |Sonia Baritello |Zilan Cokyigit |Andrew HILLIAR

1 day agoSenegal: Dakar’s iconic ‘Car Rapide’ minibuses face uncertain future amid modernization pushSHOTLIST: DAKAR, SENEGAL (MAY 28, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF SENEGAL'S ICONIC "CAR RAPIDE" MINIBUSES IN TRAFFIC/ MOVING/ PASSENGERS TRAVELING HOLDING ONTO OUTSIDE OF VEHICLE 2. PARKED MINIBUSES 3. VARIOUS INTERIOR SHOTS OF MINIBUS/ DRIVER AT WHEEL 4. VARIOUS INTERIOR SHOTS OF DECORATION/ REAR-VIEW MIRROR 5.
GĂ©rard Depardieu: The rise and fall of a French film icon

1 month ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. French film icon, Gérard Depardieu, who once described the #MeToo movement as a "reign of terror," now finds himself added to the national list of sex offenders. This after he was found guilty of sexual assault and given an 18-month suspended sentence.
Why do women live longer than men?

1 month ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Why is there such a gender gap when it comes to which sex lives the longest? Globally, women tend to outlive men by at least five years.
Why do women live longer than men?

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Annette Young |Yong Chim |Stéphanie Cheval |Elisa Amiri |Aline Bottin

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to the force on Friday. It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on …
Inside Hitler's concentration camp for women

1 month ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. As Europeans mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, in this special edition, we're focusing on the French women who were sent to a concentration camp for aiding the Resistance.
Can feminism be African?

2 months ago | france24.com | Annette Young

In this special edition, we're focusing on women's rights in Africa. As UN Women writes, women on the continent are the backbone of family and communities. Yet many endure the worst working conditions with unpaid care, low pay jobs and little or no social protection. They also suffer from different forms of violence including female genital mutilation, child marriage and physical violence.