Entries for July 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 27, 2005 For more information:Erin Henk at (202) 496-1992E-mail: ehenk@iwmf.org Journalists from China and N...

Molly Ivins has been a nationally syndicated political columnist with Creators Syndicate since 2001. Her column, a humorous approach to national politics and Texas, appears in more than 100 newspapers.

Anja Niedringhaus began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1989, while a student at the Goerg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, she covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall for the German newspaper Goettinger Tageblatt.

Sumi Khan began working as a journalist in 1993 when she started freelancing for several national daily newspapers in Bangladesh. In 1999, she became ...

Shahla Sherkat is the editorial director of Zanan (Women) in Tehran. Sherkat founded the monthly magazine in 1991, after she was dismissed from her position as editorial director at the government-owned weekly magazine Zan-e Rouz (Today’s Woman). She was pushed off the staff, she says, because she protested the magazine’s coverage of women’s issues, which only appealed to conservative, religious women who fit an image set forth by the Iranian government.