Social Media Statement on Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists 5 October 2026
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NWMI Protests Inclusion of MJ Akbar, Sexual Harassment Accused, in All-Party Delegation to Europe
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), strongly protests the inclusion of MJ Akbar in the all-party delegation for international engagement in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor launched on 7 May 2025. MJ Akbar has been accused by multiple women, most of them...
NWMI Demands Time-Bound Inquiry into Abuse by HRRFJ Awardee
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...
Sexual predators lurk in political parties with impunity
By Rituparna Chatterjee In 2018, at the peak of the #MeToo movement in India, Fairoz Khan, an official from the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party (INC), stepped down after a complaint of sexual harassment was filed against him. At the time, the Congress...
NWMI supports wrestlers’ battle for justice
The Network of Women in Media, India, stands in solidarity with India’s women wrestlers, whose most-celebrated champions are protesting against sexual harassment, abuse and bullying of their athletic community as well as maladministration by Brij Bhushan Sharan...
NWMI condemns candidature of sexual harassment case accused in Trivandrum Press Club Elections
The Trivandrum Press Club Elections are set to happen on October 23, 2021. NWMI, being an independent organisation of women in media across India which works to ensure justice to them regardless of their proximity to positions of power and authority, generally does...
The Tejpal Acquittal: NWMI’s Critique of the Judgement
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is deeply disturbed by the judgement pronounced by a District & Sessions Court at Mapusa, Goa, on May 21, 2021, acquitting journalist Tarun Tejpal, the Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka magazine, who was charged, in 2013, of the rape, unlawful confinement and sexual harassment of a young woman journalist working at the magazine.
The NWMI Stands in Solidarity with the Survivor in Tarun Tejpal Case
On a day when journalist Tarun Tejpal was acquitted of all charges – rape, unlawful confinement and sexual harassment – by a District and Sessions Court at Mapusa, Goa, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) stands in solidarity with the survivor and applauds her courage and determination to pursue justice.
NWMI Hails Landmark Judgement in Priya Ramani case: Fight against Sexual Harassment and Criminal Defamation Continues
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) welcomes the order of acquittal of journalist Priya Ramani on charges of criminal defamation brought about by former editor and Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar. The network hopes that the judgment will...
#MeToo: Taking Stock Around the Globe
September 2019 will mark a year since the flood of revelations of sexual harassment in the Indian entertainment and media industry. At a meeting organised by the Network of Women in Media, Bangalore and the Gamana Women’s Collective at the Press Club of Bangalore on August 12, 2019.
Ladybird Writes
Sexual harassment at the workplace can assume a myriad chilling and predatory forms. Siliguri-based Independent journalist Anuradha Sharma describes the decade-long stalking and telephonic abuse that she was subjected to by her senior.
The Wire must desist from providing a platform for those accused of sexual harassment
The Network of Women in Media, India, condemns the decision of The Wire to allow Vinod Dua, against whom sexual harassment accusations have been levelled, to use his show ‘Jan Gan Man Ki Baat: Rafale Deal and Rising Fuel Prices’ to malign the #METoo movement and mock the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him as ‘muck’.
In the first video that was uploaded on Tuesday, October 16, Vinod Dua said the media was not asking the government questions on ‘real issues’, and was instead preoccupied with stories of “who sexually harassed whom how many years ago”.
Sexual harassment in media workplaces: Ammu Joseph’s book examines shared experiences across time
Disclosure after disclosure by Indian women over the past week have brought to public attention for the first time the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in Indian media workplaces. The experiences shared by women journalists across the country 20 years ago and recorded in Ammu Joseph’s book, Making News: Women in Journalism, first published in 2000, establish that the existence of the problem has been known for a long time, as have some of the names now tumbling out of the closet.
Exposing unethical journalism
NWMI to PIB: Withhold accreditation of Rupesh Samant
NWMI is shocked to hear that the Press Trust of India has applied for accreditation to Rupesh Samant, who faces investigation and judicial proceedings on charges of sexual harassment
Ganguly must go: chairs of rights bodies must be above reproach 2013
On December 16, 2012, the gang-rape of a young woman in a bus in Delhi triggered outrage across the board, putting freedom from rape and sexual assault at the forefront of public debate. Ironically, young lawyer revealed that during those very protests, a retired judge of the highest court of the land had sexually harassed her while she was working with him as an intern, and that she was able to speak about it only 10 months later. On December 16, 2013, women’s rights activists across India issued a statement:
NWMI demands institutional redress of sexual harassment and assault
The NWMI demands that media houses across the country comply with the law by setting up sexual harassment complaints and redressal committees within the workplace that include at least one member external to the organisation with relevant knowledge and experience in dealing with such matters. It should be noted that the internal complaints mechanism is to be set up and its existence made known to all employees irrespective of whether or not a complaint has been made or is anticipated. Compliance with the law is the very least that mediawomen expect of the media which are, after all, supposed to be the watchdogs of society.
NWMI statement on harassment and sensational, misleading reporting by TV channels
Late evening on April 12, 2013, a group of students from Nalsar Law University went to the Rain Club located in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, for what was meant to be a farewell party for the graduating seniors. When they stepped out of the club around 10.30 pm to wait...
NWMI statements on sexual harassment at Sun TV
Eclipsing women’s rights: sexual harassment at Sun TV -- statements of NWMI, IFJ and Sun TV On March 27, Chennai-based Sun TV news anchor S Akila was suspended when she complained of sexual harassment. NWMI has called for Akila’s immediate reinstatement, an...
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