More women have entered Parliament and become heads of state across African countries, but some are continuing a legacy of corruption, repression and curtailing women’s rights.
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Nazni Rizvi Among C. Subramaniam Awardees
Nazni Rizvi, Chief Reporter at Khabar Lahariya and member of the Network of Women in Media, India, is among 15 recipients of the 2025-26 C. Subramaniam Awards. She has been recognised for her extensive reporting on social justice issues affecting marginalised communities, working across Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states, focusing on women’s rights, gender-based violence, minority communities and the lives of transgender persons.
NWMI mourns the passing of network member Urmi Rahman
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India mourns the passing of network member, journalist and author Urmi Rahman. She started her journalistic career in Dhaka, Bangladesh in the early 1970s followed by a stint in London with BBC World Service and as translator...
Wall of Shame: Watch What You Say
By Editors As we begin the 10th anniversary edition of the NWMI's Gender, Media and Elections initiative, launched in April 2014, we bring you a watchlist that provides evidence of the need to continue to keep an eye on gender-related aspects of electoral politics....
Looking Back: Media Coverage of 1996 Miss World pageant in India
As India played host to Miss World this month, NWMI members Ammu Joseph and Gita Aravamudan look back at the controversy created during the beauty pageant and media coverage of it, when it was held in India for the first time in 1996. AMMU JOSEPH While I was working...
Gender should be used as a way of seeing the world, says Nishita Jha
NWMI’s Nishita Jha joins Buzzfeed as its new global women’s rights and gender reporter. In this interview with Columbia Journalism Review, she talks about how she plans to push coverage beyond the woman as victim or victor, and look at the way big issues affect women and the way that women interact with the world.