A global network of women communicators & researchers. With 14 national chapters and members in 54 countries, IAWRT strives to meet the urgent global challenges faced by women in and around the media. It was established in the aftermath of World War II, see The History of IAWRT or IAWRT@ 60
We asked members to communicate about a crucial issue in their region and what women in media can do. Qudsia Mahtab Mehmood from Islamabad, Pakistan writes the recent elections held in Pakistan on 25 July, 2018 brought many challenges for women journalists attempting to report fairly about the elections.
In Tunis thousands of women and supporters demonstate to pressure the government to extend civil liberties.
Khedija Lemkecher and staff
IAWRT Afghanistan has begun work on an exciting project to profile influential women in Afghan media.
Safety training for alternative women journalists is one posible outcome as negotiatons begin on setting up new partnerships.
Our Organisation Part of Ground-breaking Feminist Theory.
Three hundred years of feminist theory and activism has been drawn together by a US based academic analysing the documentation of women’s organisations, and IAWRT is a part of this history.
IAWRT, India Chapter is has two exiting opportunites for members:The Directorship of the prestigious Asian Women's Film Festival, or a scholarship to support a media or research project.
Amplifying the People’s Voices
Amplifying the People’s Voices: The Philippine Community Radio Experience and Challenges, was launched in 2018 and is now available for download.
We asked members to communicate about a crucial issue in their region and what women in media can do.
Neeta Shapkota writes: the murder of a girl child goes viral in Nepal, but it does not result in justice.
We asked members to communicate about a crucial issue in their region and what women in media can do.
Nancy Cohen-koan asks: should we as women writers load up our quiver and send that arrow of truth out faster and with more urgency than ever before?
A four day capacity building symposium, in Yaounde, Media women and Election Reporting in Cameroon, focussed on how reporters could ensure gender issues were a central part of reporting in the lead up to the 2018 election.
The safety of female media workers also came into focus. The IAWRT Safety handbook for women journalists by Abeer Saady came under review, according to chapter head Becky Bissong.
IAWRT Afghanistan officially starts operation with a launch in Kabul.
Afghanistan’s acting Minister of Culture and Information joined an early morning gathering in Kabul’s Green Zone to help officially kick off the chapter.
By Sultan Mahmood Mobarez
The worldwide refugee crisis and rising intolerance and polarisation all over the world is the theme of the 2018-9 IAWRT documentary.
Chandita Mukherjee of India is the Executive Producer, who has given a preview showing of the film to IAWRT's regional conference, October 2018.
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A joint two-day seminar on online trolling of women journalists, activists, actors, women politicians and other civil society members, hosted by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and IAWRT, India chapter.
Congratulations to Geeta Sahai, IAWRT Communications Officer (pictured 3rd frm left below with her her team) for the international accolades for her film on Alzheimer's disease.
Deposed Dictator’s ban remain in place.
Authorities in Zimbabwe have ruled that a 17-year-old ban imposed on journalist Violet Gonda by former dictator Robert Mugabe will remain in place.
by Nonee Walsh
Patience Wirngo from Cameroon writes: Parents can Deter their Children from Falling Prey to Human Trafficking
