Press Freedom Status For Women Journalists: June 2021
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Press Freedom Status For Women Journalists: June 2021

During the month of June 2021, The Coalition For Women In Journalism documented an alarming 77 cases of violations against women journalists. Types of violations include murder, abduction, detentions, and physcial assaults in the field, among other various kinds of press freedom attacks towards women journalists reporting from different parts of the world. Read our June 2021 report to find out more about the Press Freedom challenges women journalists have encountered in the physical and digital world this month.

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CFWIJ Expresses Concern Regarding The Rapidly Worsening State of Civil Liberties in Pakistan
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CFWIJ Expresses Concern Regarding The Rapidly Worsening State of Civil Liberties in Pakistan

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is extremely perturbed by the deteriorating state of civil rights in Pakistan. Military intervention in politics has long been a problem in the country’s short history. Members of the civil society who have risen to demand greater participation in the governance of the country criticized the human rights breaches committed by the military and mobilized vulnerable sections of the population have been routinely harassed, threatened, abducted by the state and even murdered.

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Twenty Years After The War on Terror, Violence Remains Rampant Against Afghan Women
Afghanistan Special Report Afghanistan Special Report

Twenty Years After The War on Terror, Violence Remains Rampant Against Afghan Women

In 2001, as the world witnessed the initiation of a war that appears to never end, then First Lady Laura Bush famously justified the American invasion of Afghanistan with the promise of a better life for women oppressed under the Taliban regime. “Because of our recent military gains, in much of Afghanistan women are no longer imprisoned in their homes,” she said in a radio address on November 17, 2001.

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