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Avalkoppam

Avalkoppam

The Kerala assault survivor’s decision to come forward in 2017 and seek justice was a turning point for Malayalam cinema and for Kerala. Irrespective of the legal outcomes announced on December 8 and 12 (acquittal of actor Dileep and conviction of the six accused in...

Lights, Camera, Gender Discrimination

Lights, Camera, Gender Discrimination

As we look back on the year gone by, perhaps one of the most significant events was the release of the Hema Committee report in August. December becomes particularly significant since the Report was submitted to the Kerala government during this month in 2019, after...

NWMI expresses solidarity with WCC

NWMI expresses solidarity with WCC

With the release of the three-member Justice Hema Committee report on August 19, 2024, triggering discussions on gender safe workplaces, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) congratulates the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) for their trailblazing fight to end...

NWMI stands with WCC, condemns aggression of male journalists at recent press conference

NWMI stands with WCC, condemns aggression of male journalists at recent press conference

NWMI (Network of Women in Media, India) extends its unstinting support to the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) of the Malayalam film industry in its relentless crusade to seek justice for a Malayalam actor who was sexually assaulted in February 2017. WCC has been fighting against the apathy of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) in Kerala, that has reinstated actor Dileep who is accused of masterminding the assault on the survivor (Dileep was suspended from AMMA following his arrest last year but was arbitrarily reinstated when he got out on bail this year).