“Following my World Boxing Championship Gold, I realise people’s expectations have gone up. I will work harder and put in more preparation to get a medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics.” Fresh from her qualification for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, World Boxing champion Nikhat Zareen looked confident...
May 14, 2022 We, the undersigned journalist organizations, express strongest condemnation at the wanton killing of Al-Jazeera woman reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank while she was on duty covering a raid by Israeli forces. According to reports, the 51 year old vet...
May 3 is celebrated as World Press Freedom Day. It is also a day to introspect and take stock of where press freedoms are located in a vastly globalized world. The attacks on the media the world over have grown in myriad ways including in advanced democracies. Freedom of the press has been subject to .....
The Indian Women’s Press Corps stands in solidarity with Samriddhi K. Sakunia and Swarna Jha, the two women journalists who have been harassed, intimidated and detained for doing their job. The IWPC demands that the police immediately releases them and allows them to do their job without fear. Ms...
The Indian Women’s Press Corps is shocked and dismayed by the act of Tripura Police of booking journalist Shyam Meera Singh under UAPA along with a 100 others. Shyam Meera Singh has alleged that he has been booked for tweeting “Tripura is burning.” It is a journalist’s job t...
