Lights, Camera, Gender Discrimination
As we look back on the year gone by, perhaps one of the most significant events was the release of the Hema Committee report in August. December becomes particularly significant since the Report was submitted to the Kerala government during this month in 2019, after...
Seeking Justice for Workplace Abuse: Lessons from the Hema Committee Report
By Najiya O The Kerala chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India, organised an online panel discussion on the topic ‘Seeking Justice for Workplace Abuse: Lessons from the Hema Committee Report’ on September 7, 2024. Moderator Saraswathy Nagarajan (senior...
NWMI expresses solidarity with WCC
With the release of the three-member Justice Hema Committee report on August 19, 2024, triggering discussions on gender safe workplaces, the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) congratulates the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) for their trailblazing fight to end...
NWMI stands with WCC, condemns aggression of male journalists at recent press conference
NWMI (Network of Women in Media, India) extends its unstinting support to the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) of the Malayalam film industry in its relentless crusade to seek justice for a Malayalam actor who was sexually assaulted in February 2017. WCC has been fighting against the apathy of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA) in Kerala, that has reinstated actor Dileep who is accused of masterminding the assault on the survivor (Dileep was suspended from AMMA following his arrest last year but was arbitrarily reinstated when he got out on bail this year).