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Abeer Saady on the IAWRT safety handbook and it's use by women journalists and safety trainers.
Safety & Empowerment for Women in Media
The worldwide refugee crisis and rising intolerance and polarisation all over the world is the theme of the 2018 IAWRT documentary.
By Sarah Nakibuuka Bakehena
The IAWRT Uganda Chapter held a ‘Safety Training Workshop on safety measures and protection for female journalists
The Women's International News Service now has active correspondents in Kenya, Uganda, and Cameroon, and occasional reports from Zimbabwe, Ghana, and South Africa.
IAWRT members meeting at the 2017 Biennial in Quezon city, in the Philippines have elected former treasurer Violet Gonda, a Zimbabwean journalist resident in the UK, as the new president .
What If? ... you are targeted by security forces, shot at, kidnapped, or have to continue live reporting while a person is killed right beside you? It is a possibility for any woman journalist who reports in conflict zones, whether it is an official war or an internal conflict which is not recognised as a war. The IAWRT has now launched a new handbook which helps female reporters plan to avoid such eventualities.
The #MeToo movement has empowered women to reveal the global extent of gender violence and harassment, but revelation in itself does not create change. "Many of us feel powerless in all this," says IAWRT South Africa Chapter head Makganwana Mokgalong.
So IAWRT - South African chapter supported a young woman's birthday initiative as part of its contribution to the #MeToo movement. This poetic sharing is Mantedieng Mamabolo's #MeToo.
Applications are open for the 2018 IAWRT/FOKUS Scholarships for Studies or Training. Deadline is 13 May 2018.
The London Feminist Film Festival is returning this year for its 5th edition and is looking for feminist films from around the globe.
This story of one women shows how Ugandan women's subservient status in intimate relationships creates a barrier to protecting them from domestic violence, and from being isolated if they become infected with HIV/AIDS.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has registerered more than 60 cases of rights abuses against women journalists reporting about women's rights in more than 20 countries
Ilang Ilang Quijano
Ending violence against women and enhancing women’s representation in and access to the media is a key concern in and around the Commission on the Status of Women in 2018.
With these two areas converging in the form of cyber violence against women and girls (Cyber-VAWG) or technology-related violence against women, IAWRT and Gender Links held a Parallel Event #MetooOnline - Workshopping Solutions to Counter Cyber Violence Against Women on 16 March 2018.
IAWRT has already been involved in several workshops at this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) being held in New York, joining the discussion on the #MeToo campaign and issues of online harassment and violence against women in media.
The Festival provides women of Asian origin with a platform to display their creativity in different genres. 72 films from 19 countries were screened.
Debasrita Chakraborty