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Perpetrators of journalist killings unscathed, says formerly detained journo
MANILA – In the Philippines, journalists are being attacked while perpetrators of extrajudicial killings go free, laments journalist and recently freed political detainee Lady Ann Salem.
“It is journalists like myself, Maria Ressa, and Frenchie Mae, and our news outfits, and not the perpetrators of journalist killings, political killings, and
tokhang (drug-related) killings, who are made to suffer the weaponization of the law,” said Salem, communications officer of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television.
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If we are to find any sort of collectivity, it must be forged through amplification of women’s voices, experiences, and standpoints
Less than a week ago, International Women’s Day was upon us. Suddenly, women were everywhere. Or had they always been and I missed something? I have mixed feelings of the “on the one hand. but on the other hand” variety about this Women’s Day business.
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A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
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Tech13/Mar/2021
The two Union ministers, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar, who had jointly unveiled the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, at a press conference on February 25, are today hard at work trying to defuse the blowback.
Barely had the import of their exertions sunk in within the country, when uncomfortable news flowed in from without. In early March, the US-based Freedom House report lowered Indiaâs rank from a âfreeâ to a âpartly freeâ country followed by Swedenâs V-Dem Institute, that had once ranked India as the âworldâs largest democracyâ, now considering it an âelectoral autocracyâ. The decline in the standards of media freedom in India was a major para