Entries for June 2010

Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa project trainers visited visited Howard G. Buffett's farm in Pana, Ill., to learn about agricultural techniques and food production in the United States.

Tsering Woeser, a recipient of a 2010 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, reported on her blog that her Skype account has been hacked. She says hackers have been impersonating Tibetans to contact her and send her infected files. See Woeser's blog. Read a Reuters article about a similar Skype incident that happened to Woeser in 2008.

Agnes Taile, a 2009 winner of an IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was awarded the 2010 Cameroon Professional Society Distinguished Award for Leadership. Taile has frequently risked her life in her journalistic work. She reports on government corruption, human rights abuses and lack of press freedom in Cameroon. Taile has received threatening phone calls, been abducted and beaten for her reporting. Read more from the CPS.

Jila Baniyaghoob, an Iranian journalist who received a 2009 Courage in Journalism Award, wrote an account of when she and her husband were arrested last year following post-election protests in Iran. Read Baniyaghoob's piece on her website.

IWMF board member and independent journalist Kalpana Sharma edited the book Missing: Half the Story Journalism as if Gender Matters, which was released in May. The book focuses on gender-sensitive journalism and addresses the issue of journalists missing out on the full story by not asking questions related to women. Read more about the book.

The United Nations Development Program and Makerere University in Uganda have developed a master's degree in gender-aware economics. The one-year program will provide the future generation of African policy-makers and planners with the necessary knowledge and tools to apply gender equality as a parameter in economic policy-making, analysis, planning, budgeting and implementation. Visit Makerere's website for details.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has a position open for an executive director. The deadline for applications is July 5. E-mail completed applications to linnie(at)linniecarter.com. Information on the job description and documents to include in the application can be found on the NABJ website.

In her article, “Jinja Woman into Food Processing,” Daily Monitor reporter Pauline Kairu features a woman whose small-scale, rural project has grown i...

Pakistani Journalist Rabia Mehmood is the 2010-11 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. She covers courts, crime, human rights and  politics in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan.

For immediate release June 21, 2010 For more information: (202) 496-1992 Pakistani Journalist Rabia Mehmood Named 2010-11 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer...

Mehmood is a journalist in the Lahore bureau of Express 24/7 Television in Pakistan, where she creates news features and special reports on courts, crime, human rights, politics, socio-economic issues, health, environment and culture. Throughout her career, Mehmood has reported on topics such as women’s rights, freedom of speech and political unrest. She has covered the survivors and victims of terrorist attacks, suicide bombings and hostage sieges carried out by militants in Lahore. Mehmood has also reported on internally displaced people who left Northwest Pakistan as a result of insurgency by terrorists and military offensives.

By Stanslous Ngosa “Blind of sight and not in mind” aptly describes Monica Mulongoti, a successful blind farmer in Luanshya’s Fisenge farm bloc. Des...

Tanzanian journalist Vicky Ntetema, recipient of a 2010 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was featured on Public Radio International's The World on June 10. Listen to the program.

Thandiwe Banda, the first lady of Zambia, visited a May meeting of the IWMF’s Reporting on Agriculture and Women: Africa project in Zambia.  She commended the IWMF for giving "a voice to the voiceless women in agriculture."