Women Killed in name of Keeping Traditions Alive

We asked members to communicate about a crucial issue in their region and what women in media can do.   From Iraq, Binay Shorsh writes: In Iraq, women face a lot of danger and threats and are killed if they defy traditions. Increasingly women are breaking the barriers and working in media, but they also face gender based online attacks. 

 "I never feel shame to confess that my society is killing women to keep traditions alive -- there is only one thing I am ashamed of ... the killing of women in my community."   

Click here to read more.

News

Pages

26 Sep 2018

Welcome to the Safety Page: www.iawrt.org/safety

.Violet Gonda   President IAWRT,  Abeer Saady Vice President IAWRT

This web page is a continuation of IAWRT's work to give women media workers concrete and practical resources to keep them safe.

We began with safety training workshops and in 2017, IAWRT produced the first edition of our safety handbook of advice and recommendations, This safety section is the next step.

21 Sep 2018
United States

Killing the Messenger

We asked members to communicate about a crucial issue in their region and what women in media can do.

Nancy Cohen-koan asks: should we as women writers load up our quiver and send that arrow of truth out faster and with more urgency than ever before?

 

 

Killing the Messenger

16 Sep 2018

Cameroon Media Women Review Safety

A four day capacity building symposium, in Yaounde, Media women and Election Reporting in Cameroon, focussed on how reporters could ensure gender issues were a central part of reporting in the lead up to the 2018 election.

The safety of female media workers also came into focus. The IAWRT Safety handbook for women journalists by Abeer Saady came under review, according to chapter head Becky Bissong.

16 Sep 2018
Afghanistan

IAWRT Afghanistan

IAWRT Afghanistan officially starts operation with a launch in Kabul.

Afghanistan’s acting Minister of Culture and Information joined an early morning gathering in Kabul’s Green Zone to help officially kick off the chapter.

By Sultan Mahmood Mobarez

Pages