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Covers:  Paris, France, Gender, Women's Rights, Feminism, Policy, Climate, Cities, Women's Sports, Human Rights, International Development, Migration
Journalist. Editor of Impact, a newsletter of feminist reporting. Prof @sorbonne_nvelle. @EuroPressPrize nominee. Memoir DESIRE PATHS forthcoming May 2025.

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Megan Clement is a journalist and editor specialising in gender, human rights, international development and social policy. She also writes about Paris, where she has lived since 2015.

Between 2017 and 2018, Megan was Managing Editor of Women’s Advancement Deeply, and its earlier incarnation, Women & Girls, at News Deeply.

Before that, Megan was a foundation editor of The Conversation, helping launch the site in Australia, the UK and the US. She was Deputy Editor of the UK and subsequently the …

Megan Clement’s Journalist Portfolio

I followed the advice for Paris's hottest day - it didn't help | Megan Clement

I followed the advice for Paris's hottest day - it didn't help | Megan Clement

Last week, as Paris faced down its hottest day since records began, the city authorities declared their readi…

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Bondy's search for a female Kylian Mbappé hots up in suburbs of Paris

Bondy's search for a female Kylian Mbappé hots up in suburbs of Paris

It was on a modest pitch in a northern Paris suburb where the six-year-old Kylian Mbappé began to shine. Long…

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As history went up in flames, the sound of song came from Paris' streets

As history went up in flames, the sound of song came from Paris' streets

By Megan Clement Updated first published at Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Paris: It …

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How Dr. Denis Mukwege Became a Global Advocate for Rape Survivors

How Dr. Denis Mukwege Became a Global Advocate for Rape Survivors

Through his holistic approach to treating women who have been subject to sexual violence in the Democratic Re…

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'No-go zone' for women? How street harassment in Paris boiled over

'No-go zone' for women? How street harassment in Paris boiled over

Caroline says the harassment occurs on a daily basis. "Being whistled at is almost constant." Walking through…

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Articles

How I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnant

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In the summer of 2019, I had a "fun" idea for a piece. Paris was due to experience its hottest day in history, and I proposed travelling around the city trying out its various cooling-off strategies to see if they would help. Reader, it was not fun and they did not help. Last week, Paris experienced its worst period of catastrophic heat on record, worse than that day in 2019, and worse than in 2003, when a sustained heatwave killed nearly 15,000 people.
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In France, a neo-Nazi ‘bodyguard’ was killed. These are the far-right ‘feminists’ he was supposed to be protecting

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The Institute for Political Studies in Lyon stands in a sombre square beneath a lofty, fluttering tricolour flag. The university shares its premises with The Resistance and Deportation History Centre, a site once used by the Gestapo as its headquarters, where thousands of Jews and resistance fighters were tortured and deported to Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.
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Viktor Orbán leaves an oversized legacy for the global far-right

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The only remotely gracious element of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year tenure as Hungarian prime minister was the manner of his exit. After Europe had braced for election denial and an attempt to hang onto power in the country he had remade in his own illiberal image, Orbán conceded swiftly to his opponent, Péter Magyar, whose Tisza Party won a commanding majority in parliament on Sunday. Yet the mess Orbán leaves behind goes far beyond Hungary’s borders.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

As a founding editor for The Conversation.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I learned to type on a typewriter when I was a child.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Via email.
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