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The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the ongoing trolling, intimidation and targeted harassment of Kashmiri journalist and NWMI member Gafira Qadir, who has been reporting and writing in the region and across India for over six years.
By Rifat Mohidin For 19-year-old Amina Jan, casting her first vote in the ongoing assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir was both exciting and challenging. These elections, being held in the region after a decade, represent a personal milestone for young voters like...
By Safeena Wani Sugra Barkati. Photo courtesy: Imran Nissar/ The Hindu A group of bandana-clad boys chaperone Sugra Barkati, a barely 16-year-old youngster, to Ganderbal constituency, one of the 90 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, which will decide the fate of...
By Sumayyah Qureshi In Anchar, a neighbourhood in the northern part of Srinagar, Kashmir, many women turned out to vote in the second phase of polling for the state’s legislative assembly elections, on September 25. Their concerns: incarcerated youth, the need for...
The Network of Women in Media, India, condemns the Union Government’s censorship of The Kashmir Walla, an independent online news magazine, after the government restricted access to its website and social media accounts without prior notice or official order....
By Quratulain Rehbar It was only some weeks after the abrogation of Article 370 that I found the place — the Kashmir Press Club. The faces at the club were unknown to me initially, but no longer so after our daily interactions. Most Kashmiri journalists who were...
A photo essay by Masrat Zahra It has been two years since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which granted Jammu and Kashmir special status. The abrogation was followed by many months of further clampdown on the state including the cutting off of...
By Raihana Maqbool Two years ago, on 5 August 2019, the Government of India, in an unprecedented political cataclysm- unheard of in the entire history of democracy- revoked the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and unleashed a reign of...
By Editors NWMI member Divya Arya has been telling people’s stories for almost two decades now. Navigating video, audio and text mediums across English and Hindi languages, Divya Arya explores human rights and social justice issues with a gender lens. An award-winning...
The Network of Women in Media, India, expresses its outrage at the harassment and violence meted out to the elderly parents of award-winning Kashmiri photojournalist and NWMI member Masrat Zahra. Such harassment of vulnerable family members is an abhorrent strategy of...
We, the members of the Network of Women in Media, India, an association of more than 500 media women across India condemn the revocation of Article 370, which granted special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, along with allied Bills introduced as executive orders in Parliament
The NWMI stands in solidarity with Kashmiri photojournalist Masrat Zahra, who is being subjected to online abuse and intimidation for carrying out her journalistic duty.
The NWMI expresses outrage at the NIA’s attempt to lay down the “moral duty of a journalist’”.
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