A vibrant international network of media women or researchers, in television, film, radio and online journalism. We run media projects and a biennial conference on gender media issues that includes screenings and professional training. Click here for The History of IAWRT or IAWRT@ 60
IAWRT and partners at Commission on the Status of Women CSW62, New York, USA, 2018. "Speak to government, network, respect and recognise each other - move from words to action."
1 May 1982 - 30 November 2017
By Violet Gonda, IAWRT President
It is with profound shock and sadness that IAWRT announces the sudden death of Yasmine Ryan, the newly elected IAWRT board member from New Zealand. We have been informed that our friend and colleague died in Turkey on Thursday morning.
IAWRT Uganda chapter signs MOU with HRNJ-Uganda
The IAWRT Uganda Chapter and Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on projects that promote the rights of the country's journalists.
Increasing trust in journalism
One of IAWRT's partner organisations, the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) has restructured and refreshed its website. Its aimed at strengthening capacity to build trust in journalism as a cornerstone of free expression and quality communications.
A new challenge
Ananya Chakraborti, the Vice President of IAWRT International, has accepted a new position as the Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. Ananya says she is looking forward to the challenging assignment.
Deadline October 31 2016.
The 13th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival will take place in New Delhi from 2-4 March, 2017 at the India International Centre. The festival will showcase the works of Asian women directors living in any part of the world.
Typhoon survivo in first-ever community radio podcast at Mambog, Phillippines
By Frenchie Mae Cumpio
ABOUT two hundred typhoon survivors participated in the first-ever community radio podcast at Mambog, Pinabacdao, Samar, in late July.
A unique visual tool to capture women’s participation in executive government and in parliaments around the globe.
IAWRT International invites members from countries in the global South to apply for a scholarship to study in journalism, mass communications or releted areas.
Selected films from the succesful 2017 IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival held by the India Chapter in New Delhi in March will travel to Nepal for the first time.
Call for applications - IAWRT /FOKUS Scholarships for Studies 2017
IAWRT International invites members from countries in the global South who are studying, or want to start a study in journalism, mass communication or similar, to apply for a scholarship (maximum one year).
“Across the world, civil society space is shrinking, and democratic actors and human rights defenders face daunting attacks”.
That stark assessment at the opening of the 61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women came from Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. So, it was timely that IAWRT presented its documentary on the dangers faced down by women making news, and a panel discussion at its parallel event for NGO/CSW New York.
Nonee Walsh
Several thousand Women from around the globe, who are active in women’s issues, have been flooding into New York to learn, network and lobby around the annual meeting of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) which aims to shape global standards on global progress to equality. This year’s emphasis is on the changing world of work.
"female journalists may increasingly find themselves in the cross hairs"
The International Federation of Journalists has backed global campaigning by the international trade union movement to end violence against women and close the gender pay gap.
Velvet Revolution in New York
IAWRT will be screening parts of the 2017 documentary Velvet Revolution about women making news in the face of adversity, at a parallel event to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) being held in New York.