A global network of women communicators & researchers. With 14 national chapters and members in 54 countries, IAWRT strives to meet the urgent global challenges faced by women in and around the media. It was established in the aftermath of World War II, see The History of IAWRT or IAWRT@ 60
Fifty-one films from 15 Asian countries, all directed by women filmmakers, will be screened at the 16th edition of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival from March 5 to March 7 in New Delhi.
The festival will showcase the work of women directors from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Doha, Iran, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Taiwan and Turkey.
IAWRT joins media groups calling for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a member of the IAWRT Philippines chapter.
Cumpio was arrested with four other human rights defenders in simultaneous early morning police raids on offices on February 7 in Tacloban City.
NGO CSW monthly meeting in January discussed creating a gender-equal world through participation and accountability
by Marry Ferreira Busquet
Justice for all journalist killings:
Statement as the Philippines, and the world, awaited the the verdict in the Ampatuan massacre, after 10 years of waiting.
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November
The sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women is to be held at the UN in New York from 9 to 20 March 2020.
Justice for all journalist killings:
Statement as the Philippines, and the world, awaited the the verdict in the Ampatuan massacre, after 10 years of waiting.
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November
Media and women are being targeted in the midst of a governmet crackdown on mass demonstrations.
Our Iraq Kurdistan chapter reports that the targeting is happeneing as thousands of Iraqis demonstrate against government corruption, failing state services and a lack of job opportunities.
Countless women still experience fear and are threatened when exercising their rights to freedom of expression on the internet despite the United Nations recognition that such rights are the same online as in real life.
Female journalists, for example, have many negative experiences with online expression and this is one of the reasons for the Workshop on Teaching Gender in Journalism and Media Studies was organised in Indonesia.
By Lynda Garcia
IAWRT has officially launched our new international office
The launch in Quezon city in the Philippineswas part of a forum entitled Women Journalists Fight Back.
Qudsia Mahtab Mehmood
Islamabad, Pakistan
Development Journalist
IAWRT condemns all attacks on journalists and media workers
IAWRT joins the annual observance of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists on November 2.
