Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and Reporters Without Borders is urging a public campaign to honour, and aid, women journalists around the world.
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March, a French reporter is being held hostage in Iraq and four others are imprisoned elsewhere. Five women journalists have been killed doing their jobs since 8 March 2004.
Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to these women journalists, cyberdissents and Internet-users who, risking their lives and freedom have carried on, for us, their work of informing the public. “We call on the international community to campaign for the release of women held in Iraq, Rwanda, the Maldives, Turkey and Iran. Most cases of murders of women journalists have been carried out with complete impunity. Governments must act for justice to be done.”
The article at the RWB web site provides an extensive look at women journalists and bloggers who have lost their freedom — and even their lives — in pursuit of truth, including Canadian Zahra Kazemi, 54, who was killed while in custody in Iran.
TECHNORATI TAGS: WOMEN JOURNALISTS, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, FREEDOM
