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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.
UPDATE (7 September 2024): The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) welcomes the decision by the Washington-based Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) to withdraw the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Journalism Award (HRRFJA) in photojournalism to Umar Altaf...
June 30 is celebrated as World Social Media Day. While technology is empowering and enabling, it has also helped to transfer and recreate misogyny, sexism and violence against women in social networks. A few years ago, extreme misogyny existed on platforms like...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the incessant online harassment and abuse of Hyderabad-based journalist Thulasi Chandu, which amounts to a hate campaign against her and includes threats of rape and murder. The police has not taken action...
Shalin has been facing high-volume coordinated harassment for questioning the TN state government and the Union government for atrocities against Dalits. The Network of Women in Media, India, strongly condemns the continuous and ongoing harassment of...
By Editors Editors and reporters must undertake a comprehensive risk assessment before reporting assignments, said Colin Pereira, chief strategist on journalist safety, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at the Journalist Safety Workshop organised by CPJ and the...
We, at the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), are shocked and angry at the incessant online attacks against women journalists, especially those from minority and marginalised communities who are outspoken about the plight of these groups.
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is deeply disturbed at the rape and death threats recently received by Asianet News reporter PR Praveena. Praveena, who works for the Thiruvananthapuram bureau of the news channel, has been on the front line of reporting on...
The Network of Women in Media in India stands in solidarity with the editors of Coimbatore-based website The Covai Post who have been receiving death threats for a story on their website and condemns the harassment of Vidyashree Dharmaraj and AR Meyammai.
Over the past week, the editors of The Covai Post, Vidyashree Dharmaraj and AR Meyammai, have been at the receiving end of death threats and harassment for a story on their website, titled ‘Girls in puberty stage paraded half-naked, offered to deity for a fortnight’, published on September 24, 2017