by Leena Reghunath | Jul 15, 2021 | Reports
By Editors All things remaining equal, it will take at least a further 67 years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media: Highlights from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy...
by Leena Reghunath | May 13, 2021 | Gender, Media & Elections
By Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
by Leena Reghunath | May 1, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Durba Ghosh They may be derogatorily labelled as ‘Bangladeshis’ or ‘miyas’, but the descendants of Bengali Muslims of erstwhile East Bengal origin in Assam, particularly the women of the community, have firmly asserted their democratic...
by Leena Reghunath | Jan 1, 2021 | Statements
The Network of Women in Media, India strongly condemns the targeting and harassment of writer-activist Dr Meena Kandasamy. Meena Kandasamy is an internationally acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction and narrative non-fiction. She has consistently raised her voice...
by Leena Reghunath | Dec 10, 2020 | Awards
By Editors Maitri Porecha NWMI member Maitri Porecha was awarded First Prize for best article at the 2020 awards of The Press Institute of India (PII), Chennai, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), New Delhi. Her article, ‘Caught in crossfire:...
