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NWMI Patna Declaration In the wake of increasing attacks on the freedom of the media in India, the NWMI’s 17th National Meeting (27-29 January 2023) in Patna, Bihar, calls upon journalists, media workers and the public to stand up for press freedom, ethical...
Despite restrictions, diktats and threats, Afghan women journalists continue to work. Guest Post contribution by Afghan journalist A Khan A With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan since August 2021, the media has been hit hardest, and a new and painful chapter has...
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.
By Editors What were the earliest Hindi women’s magazines like, and what role did they play in women’s lives? What do female political journalists in India have to say about their profession? Where does India stand on gender balance in the media? The latest edition of...
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...
By Editors Transcript from a recording of Afghan journalist Makia, who talks of her work and life in Afghanistan, and what the Taliban takeover has meant for the media community in the country. Makia is among the lucky ones to have made an escape, first to Pakistan,...
By Editors Transcript from a recording of Zenab*, a 25-year old reporter and presenter with Afghanistan International Radio and TV. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, she left for Turkey with three family members. Others in her family are still in Kabul,...
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is deeply disturbed at the incessant onslaught of threats received by filmmaker Leena Manimekalai and deplores attempts to threaten journalists reporting on her sexual harassment case. Leena Manimekalai has been waging a...
“I want to show the Taliban and their allies that women never accept defeat. Women have always been and will always be with us. With the support of committed women from other countries, we will once again strive to achieve the rights of Afghan women,” says...
The Network of Women in Media, India, reached out to women journalists in Afghanistan in solidarity and looked for ways to support our beleaguered colleagues trying to survive and tell their stories against immense odds. One of the most urgent needs: money. Under the banner “Journalists for Afghanistan”, the NWMI organised a fundraiser from sales of stunning photographs.
The Network of Women in Media, India demands that Indian authorities stop the harassment and intimidation of women journalists based on dubious police complaints. Women journalists from minority communities (particularly Muslim) and from marginalised communities, have...
The Network of Women in Media, India stands in solidarity with journalists and all other beleaguered civilians in Afghanistan, especially women, as the situation rapidly deteriorates amidst the Taliban take-over of the country. We urge the Indian government to extend...
By Annie Philip The oral history project, ‘The Moment, As She Knows It’, helmed by community organiser Gather Sisters, pieces together stories of Covid-19 as seen through the eyes of women journalists across India, several of them NWMI members. The project, conducted...
The NWMI demands the immediate cessation of threats and intimidatory tactics from all state and non-state agents including those associated with the Communist Party of India (Maoist), that pressurise journalists and others who are vulnerable to such attempts at intimidation.
The Network of Women In Media, India (NWMI) notes with concern a lack of commitment and increasing confusion in India’s English news media regarding the coverage of sexual harassment. The latest episode is the disappearance of several articles about complaints of...
The NWMI strongly objects to the statement issued by the Sabarimala Karma Samithi on November 3, 2018, to editors and decision-makers in the news media, requesting them to refrain from deputing women journalists of a particular age group to Sabarimala to cover the reopening of the temple for a special puja on Monday (November 5). We believe this is an unjustified and unacceptable interference in the functioning of the media and an unfair obstacle in the way of journalists –who happen to be women– who wish to cover an important story of public interest.
The attacks on journalists and press photographers covering the panchayat poll process in West Bengal is reprehensible. Such intimidation and violence adversely impacts free and fair reporting of the electoral process, and also impinges on the public’s right to know, says the NWMI
NWMI strongly condemns the physical violence meted out to journalists covering a padyatra (long march) by students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on March 23 and demands strict action against the perpetrators.
The Bangalore Literature Festival 2017 session on the online – often sexual – harassment of women journalists was held on October 28, 2017. The session was planned in the aftermath of the murder of Gauri Lankesh, who was herself a target of online abuse until the violence moved from the virtual world into the real one and silenced her forever. Nidhi Razdan (NDTV) and NWMI members Sindhu Sooryakumar (Asianet) and Laxmi Murthy (International Federation of Journalists) participated in the panel discussion moderated by Ammu Joseph (independent journalist and network member). The experiences of online abuse of the fourth panellist, network member Dhanya Rajendran (The Newsminute) were shared in absentia. The panellists talked about their own experiences of trolling and other forms of harassment as well as about the implications of the increasingly frequent and intense targeting of female media professionals – on the Internet, on the phone and even in real life – not just for themselves (at the personal and professional levels) but for democracy and freedom of expression.
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