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. AUGUST 17, 2021 The Network of Women in Media, India stands in solidarity with journalists and all other beleaguered civilians in […]
The Network of Women in Media, India, expresses its outrage at the harassment and violence meted out to the elderly parents of award-winning Kashmiri photojournalist and NWMI member Masrat Zahra. Such harassment of vulnerable family members is an abhorrent strategy of intimidation that must be strongly condemned. The incident occurred in the Batamaloo area […]
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) critiques the trail court judgement acquitting Tarun Tejpal, chief editor of Tehelka magazine, charged in 2013, of rape and sexual harassment of a young woman journalist working in the same magazine, as a grave miscarriage of justice, with the court putting the victim on trial, persistently shaming […]
On December 13, 2020, a death threat, to Pushpa Rokde, a journalist, purportedly signed by the Maoist South Bastar Pamed Area Committee, was pinned to a tree near Puskunta village in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) is deeply concerned about the dire warnings and death threats issued to […]
Earlier this month, the Kerala Government had decided to amend the Kerala Police Act in an effort to stop the malicious campaigns and various forms of harassment and trolling through social media. However, the amendment, which for example allowed the police to slap criminal charges on citizens by interpreting any kind of communication through any medium […]
A survey conducted by the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI), and Gender at Work, found that over a third of all respondents working in media houses have experienced sexual harassment at their workplaces, and a large percentage of them had never attended a training workshop on sexual harassment, as required by the law. […]