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Trolls Target India’s Media Women
India’s Minister for Women and Child Development, the sassy Maneka Gandhi, recently sparked debate by asking trolled women to send complaints to her Ministry. She said the Ministry would interface with the Police and the Cyber Crimes Cell to help them get redressal....
In any Kashmir emergency, why is Press always the first casualty?
The current unrest in Kashmir marred by the worst kind of violence that the valley saw after six years has again raised serious questions about the freedom of press and journalists in this part of the world. The Kashmir region located in the northwestern part of the...
RTI in Sri Lanka: It took 22 years, and journey continues
Sri Lanka’s Parliament debated the Right to Information (RTI) bill for two days (23 – 24 June 2016) before adopting it into law. No member opposed it, although some amendments were done during the debate. If that sounds like an easy passage, it was preceded by over...
Right to Information in Sri Lanka
Right to Information (RTI) legislation was unanimously passed in Sri Lanka’s Parliament last week (June 24) without a vote. It sounds easy and inevitable when framed thus, but that one sentence masks decades of activism and advocacy to pass RTI to no avail, and strong...
Online Media Directives ill-intended, needs immediate scrapping
The Government of Nepal recently approved the Online Media Operation Directives 2016 which grossly violates citizens' right to freedom of expression and media freedom. It truly reflects government's attempt to control media. It is quite astonishing that the Directives...
Why Digital Security matters for journalists in South Asia
The Internet is one of the last bastions of freedom - or at least, it was, until most governments discovered it. States have traditionally been inclined to censor the press, regulate TV and radio; they have suppressed publication of books and newspapers and controlled...
Woman Journalist Attacked by Interviewee
Violence has become pervasive in India during the past few years. Several cases of violence, rape and gang rape have filled up media pages. Media persons too have been targeted violently, most often vindictively. Recently a senior media woman Revati Laul, was attacked...
Press freedom in Pakistan
Two incidents — one involving a media office in Islamabad and the other a seasoned journalist in Peshawar — in the span of little over a month, earlier this year, offered a glimpse into where the media and its practitioners stand today on the freedom of the press in...
Where Bangladesh is heading?
Bangladesh is probably passing through one of its most fragile hours since its inception by walking in a pitch-black tunnel with no ray of light to be seen on either sides. After a brief period of continuous assassinations of foreigners, progressive bloggers, writers...
Trauma and Journalism Training after Earthquake Experience
On April 25, 2015, I was one among a thousand people at the Academy Hall, Kathmandu enjoying a dance on the national song. The chief guest of the program was the then Speaker Subas Nemwang and the program was just about to become formal when the earthquake struck. The...
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