FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 4, 2005 For more information:Kathleen Currie, (202) 496-1992E-mail: Kcurrie@iwmf.org Letter on Behalf of C...

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.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 24, 2005 For more information:Kathleen Currie (202) 496-1992 E-mail: KCurrie@iwmf.org Journalists from Bangla...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 10, 2005 For more information:Kathleen Currie, (202) 496-1992E-mail: kcurrie@iwmf.org Freelance Journalist Ca...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 5, 2005 For more information:Kathleen Currie at (202) 496-1992 or e-mail: KCurrie@iwmf.org Global Human Right...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 6, 2005 For more information:Erin Henk, (202) 496-1992E-mail: ehenk@iwmf.org New IWMF Publication Looks at ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 28, 2005 For more information:Kathleen Currie, (202) 496-1992E-mail: kcurrie@iwmf.org Letter on Behalf of M...

Belva Davis has more than 30 years of experience as a public affairs journalist in the San Francisco area. Now semi-retired, Davis continues to work as a special projects reporter at KRON-TV and as host of This Week in Northern California on KQED-TV.

Gwen Lister, 50, began working as a journalist in 1975 in Namibia, when it was a province of South Africa known as South-West Africa. After completing her degree at The University of Cape Town, Lister took a job at the Windhoek Advertiser. She soon left the paper when the South African government put pressure on the editor to sign a document stating that the Advertiser would cease to print positive articles about the South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), which opposed the government and its system of apartheid.

Mabel Rehnfeldt began her journalism career in 1983 at Sendero, the official newspaper of the Catholic Church in Paraguay. Sendero was the only independent newspaper published during the final years of General Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship. (Stroessner was overthrown in a 1989 coup and currently lives in exile in Brazil.)