by IFJ Asia Pacific | Oct 14, 2015 | Maldives, SAMSN Blog
When in the Maldives, despite all the updates we journalists receive on issues of democracy and severe impacts of climate change, its breathtaking beauty makes it difficult to stay focused on issues. But this is exactly what some 50 women did at the beautiful...
by IFJ Asia Pacific | Oct 7, 2015 | India, SAMSN Blog
The women journalists who run a multi-edition rural weekly in north India are used to making the news – not figuring in it. Recently however the women of ‘Khabar Lahariya’ were in the news, although for all the wrong reasons. For months these women had been receiving...
by IFJ Asia Pacific | Sep 30, 2015 | SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Earlier in September, Ruki Fernando was in Geneva as the reports of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released the longest page-report (251 pages) narrating the horrific stories of unlawful killings and enforced disappearances out of Sri...
by IFJ Asia Pacific | Sep 23, 2015 | Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
September didn’t begin well for the Pakistani media. In less than 24 hours, two media personnel were killed and two seriously injured in a series attacks in two cities. On the night of September 8, 2015 a DSNG van of Geo News was attacked by unknown gunmen riding a...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 17, 2015 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, SAMSN Blog, Threat
On September 15, 2015, I was at New Baneshwor, Kathmandu in front of the Constituent Assembly (CA) as there was a demonstration. The protesters were demanding that Nepal should be declared a Hindu state in the new constitution which the CA voted against. The...
by IFJ Asia Pacific | Aug 26, 2015 | Bangladesh, SAMSN Blog
In a span of one year, Bangladesh has witnessed heinous murder of four bloggers. Ahmed Rajib Haider was the first target in 2013 and he was hacked to death. Islamist militants have taken the credit for the killing. In February of 2015, Bangladeshi-American activist,...
