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Women journalists trolled and targeted: India

By Nupur Basu (Independent journalist, award winning documentary film maker, and educator from India.) On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2022, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) came out with a numbing statistic on India. It ranked India at 150 out of 180 countries in...

The hazards of journalism in Africa

By Martin Plaut   Reporting in a war zone The war in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, which erupted in November 2020, is probably the bloodiest current conflict in the world. It is also the least reported. Somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people have...

Taking Stock of the Commonwealth

Taking Stock of the Commonwealth

By Professor Philip Murphy, Director of ICwS The 2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was due to open in Rwanda on 22 June. In April, with only a couple of months to go, the inevitable announcement was made that the summit was being postponed to some...