A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end | Kiran Nazish
Oct 31, 2024
Warnings are not enough. After Victoria Roshchyna’s death, we need zero tolerance of the detention and brutal treatment of female reportersLast summer I began receiving messages about the disappearance of 26-year-old Victoria Roshchyna, a young Ukrainian journalist, who had gone missing while reporting from occupied east Ukraine.Since we began our Women Press Freedom project, I and my colleagues at the Coalition for Women in Journalism have received a lot of messages of concern about the safety of female journalists all over the world, but I vividly remember the pain and terror that peppered the SOS calls from Roshchyna’s friends and colleagues.Kiran Nazish is the director and founder of the Coalition for Women in Journalism and Women Press Freedom Continue reading...