IAWRT 2022 Elections
Get yourself involved! IAWRT members will soon elect a new international board to run the organisation. The Election will be held ONLINE in late September BEFORE the November 18 Biennial […]
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IAWRT NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Dear members, friends and supporters of IAWRT! As you know, IAWRT has been hit hard by grave and brutal events: Last Thursday, on International Human Rights Day, one of our […]
Journalist Members Murdered, Arrested
IAWRT strongly condemns the brutal shooting of Malalai Maiwand and her driver in Afghanistan & the arrest of IAWRT’s Communication Officer Lady Ann Salem, in the Philippines IAWRT strongly condemns […]
2020 Asian Women’s Film Festival
“If you listen closely you can hear many tongues speaking in unison, in a cacophony, in rhythm, sometimes with its own beat. As filmmakers we go out into the world […]
NGO CSW Forum
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. NGO CSW Forum […]
Massacre Convictions a Decade on
Sentences passed on those responsible for murdering 58 people, including 32 journalists, have been welcomed. The mass murders happened 10 years ago in the southern province of Maguindanao. […]
Mobilizing on Gender Violence
Across the globe from Uganda to Kurdistan to the USA, IAWRT members were involved the 16 days of activism against gendered violence. In Uganda statistics indicate 49% of […]
End Rape – Eliminate Violence against Women
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2019 End rape—an intolerable cost to society If I could […]
Gender in Journalism and Media Studies
Fifteen countries were represented by women journalists and media educators. By Lynda Garcia Countless women still experience fear and are threatened when exercising their rights to freedom of expression on […]
New International Office in Manilla
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. The event opening included comments […]