The International Association of Women in Radio & Television

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

Qudsia Mahtab Mehmood

Islamabad, Pakistan

Development Journalist

The grey and black shades of a turbid political history in Pakistan is reflected in the ups and downs of legislative reform. 

The half of the population that has been most impacted by this, is Pakistan's women.

By Qudsia Mahtab Mehmood

Veteran IAWRT Chapter India member Dr. Padmaja Shaw, has instituted a fellowship in IAWRT India.

The IAWRT-Shaw Memorial Fellowship is in memory of her late husband Rajendra Shaw.

Four IAWRT members have accepted an invitation to participate in a conference focusing on gender in media education in Jakarta.

The gathering is being organized jointly by the Journalism and Media International Center (JMIC),