Press Corner

The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) features Women Press Freedom’s statement about the detention of Turkish journalist Pınar Gayıp.

In the latest episode of Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit discusses the findings from WPF's study on online harassment targeting women journalists

Medya News has reported extensively on the findings of WPF, highlighting the widespread legal harassment targeting women journalists in Turkiye.

CFWIJ Founding Director Kiran Nazish Interviewed by The Guardian

In early 2024, the harmful use of deepfake technology targeting women journalists skyrocketed.

Inge Snip, senior editor at the Women Press Freedom, spoke to LA Public Press about the issue.

The global scale of this pandemic has forced countries around the world to take serious measures, including closing borders and imposing quarantines. This has increased multidimensional challenges to the journalists who are reporting on this story, from all across the world.

Ongoing concerns raised by civil society include reports of harassment, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders, especially those working to defend economic, social and cultural rights.

Kiran Nazish, the founder of CFWIJ and WPF, speaks to The Guardian about the global crackdown on women in journalism.

CFWIJ states that 2023 was the deadliest year for female journalists and the organization draws attention to the increasing dangers to journalism, especially in conflict zones and under authoritarian regimes.

Kurds, refugees, ethnic-religious communities, women and LGBTI+ journalists in Turkey face threats and violence.

Award-winning Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, known for her reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has gone missing.

Menschen Machen Medien speaks with CFWIJ and WPF Director Kiran Nazish about the pressure that women journalists around the world face.

CFWIJ and WPF joins more than a half-dozen press freedom groups demanding police drop the bogus charges against Brandi Morin, an esteemed journalist who was simply doing her job.

CFWIJ and WPF is deeply alarmed by the Diyarbakır Regional Court of Justice's decision to overturn the acquittal of journalist Ayşe Kara.

1 year ago, #MahsaAmini's death led to women-led protests across Iran. Women demanded change.

At least 100 women journalists spent the first quarter of 2023 behind bars, 4 less than in the first quarter of the previous year.

Far-right politicians insult and mock Ida Erämaa after her article criticizes their attempts to curtail press from exposing their extreme right-wing connections.

2022 has taken its toll on the full range of women journalists' rights. In 2022, we witnessed a war, uprising of women in a country, arrest of women journalists, deprivation of women from a vast number of rights, including education, and much more.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is thrilled to announce the CFWIJ Kathy Gannon Legacy Award to celebrate a veteran correspondent who broke many barriers in our industry while covering some of the most vital and globally critical stories of her time with deep compassion and integrity.

Journalists trying to report the devastating aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey are being prevented from doing their jobs. CFWIJ condemns attempts to impede journalists from reporting on the disaster. 

At least 18 women journalists and activists have been arrested since demonstrations broke out after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained and beaten by Iranian morality police for violating the country's hijab law on September 16, 2022.

Gharidah Farooqi has been hit with yet another wave of online attacks, including organized online trolling by social media accounts purportedly linked to ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

Twenty Kurdish journalists, seven of them women, were detained after simultaneous police raids in Diyarbakir early this morning.

Throughout the month of May 2022, the Coalition For Women In Journalism documented 40 cases of violations against women journalists.

CFWIJ had a discussion on the global landscape for women journalists and what the future holds for them.

On World Press Freedom Day, the Coalition For Women In Journalism publishes its First Quarterly report.

Throughout the month of March 2022, the Coalition For Women In Journalism documented 32 cases of violations against women journalists.

Kiran Nazish, the founding director of the international Coalition For Women In Journalism, compared the readiness journalists need for navigating online threats to the readiness a foreign correspondent might take into covering a new place.

In this episode of MFRR in Focus on the topic of women in journalism, host Anne ter Rele discusses how being a woman affects one’s journalistic practice. She speaks with Kiran Nazish, the founding director of the Coalition For Women in Journalism, a global support and advocacy organization for women journalists.