by SAMSN Admin | Apr 27, 2016 | Bangladesh, Human Rights, Killing, Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog
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...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 31, 2016 | Nepal, SAMSN Blog
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...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 7, 2016 | Gender, Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
The importance of a safe working environment cannot be emphasized enough, especially with a larger number of women joining the work force. It is imperative that organizations take serious steps to protect women employees so that they can concentrate on their work and...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 4, 2016 | Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog, South Asia
On February 5, 2016, UNESCO, the IFJ and the WAN-IFRA organized a conference ‘News Organisations Standing Up for the Safety of Media Professionals’ at its headquarters with an aim of strengthening the safety of journalists globally by working out possible...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, India, SAMSN Blog
Visualize this. For two days, journalists covering news within the premises of the Patiala House Courts in Delhi were repeatedly attacked. They were targeted; and their mobile phones and tablets grabbed and smashed. Women journalists were among those who were...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Maldives, SAMSN Blog
Harassed, arrested, prosecuted and even violently attacked, journalism has never seen such gloomy days in Maldives since an iron clad monopoly on Freedom of Speech and Expression, and Freedom of the Media was released from its shackles in the late 2000s. Though the...
