Journalists Solafa Magdy and Esraa Abdel-Fattah were interrogated and ordered 15 days in pre-trial detention.
Read MoreIn the 20 days since the disputed presidential elections, Belarus has presented anything but ideal working conditions for journalists.
Read MoreThe Coalition For Women In Journalism is thrilled that the EU Awards for Investigative Journalism in Turkey for 2019 was awarded to three women journalists.
Read MoreIraqi journalist Noor Maytham Shuhab’s asylum application rejected in June 2020 by the Swedish supreme court because Iraq is no longer categorized as a dangerous country.
Read MoreWomen journalists in Pakistan are campaigning against the online harassment they receive on a daily basis.
Read MoreNabih Berry, Speaker of the Lebanese parliament and Bassil Jubran, president of the free patriot movement are suing Journalist Dima Sadek for allegations of spreading false news under defamation law.
Read MoreWe are thrilled with the news that the 2020 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism was awarded to Masrat Zahra for telling the stories of Kashmiri women.
The Coalition For Women In Journalism welcomes the prison sentence given to the mastermind of journalist Miroslava Breach’s murder.
The journalists from the Radio Liberty Russian service who were held in Minsk, Yulia Vishnevetskaya and Andrei Kiselyov, have been released from the Partizansky district police station and are being deported.
Read MoreSharmila Faruqui, Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) in Sindh and a CFWIJ ally, moved a resolution in the Sindh assembly against the online harassment faced by Pakistani women journalists
Read MoreHundreds of women journalists issued a joint statement denouncing misogyny, extending solidarity among themselves to victims of sexual harassment and assault.
Read MoreTatsiana Belashova was among numerous journalists detained and loaded into a police van near the Central police department, without any explanation.
Read MoreJournalist Alena Scharbinskaya has been hospitalized due to the brutal beatings she experienced while kept in a Belarussian detention center.
Read MoreA group of leading Pakistani women journalists attended a meeting facilitated by the parliamentary committee on human rights to address vicious online attacks against women journalists.
Read MoreFreelance photographer Maranie Rae Staab has been documenting the protests and the police brutality in Portland.
Read MoreSayeeda Khanam, the first female professional photographer of Bangladesh, passed away at her Dhaka home.
Read MoreThe Coalition For Women In Journalism documented cases of 15 women journalists who have been attacked in various forms; detention, impediment of work, damage to equipment or physical injury.
Nagah Al-Abadi, correspondent of Al-hurra News and her crew was attacked by security forces while covering protests in Iraq.
The Coalition For Women In Journalism stands with the right to peaceful assembly and right to information of Belarussian citizens.
Read MoreUkrainian Journalist Lyubov Velychko received threats after her investigation analyzing 10 thousand messages on Russian Telegram channels.
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