Help women take up decision-making roles in newsrooms: Award-winning Canadian journalist to male scribes
Male journalists must be stronger allies for their female counterparts by supporting women to take up decision-making roles in newsrooms, said a visiting award-winning Canadian journalist here today.
KATHMANDU, Nov 21: The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) is organizing the International Women Film Festival. IAWRT is the umbrella organisation of journalist women working in the national and international radio and television media.
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LONDON, June 14: The UK chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has got a new leadership with Dhrubaraj Aryal as a chair. The election held on Sunday picked the new leadership.
Correspondent of Annapurna Post and editor of nepalilink.com Dhrubaraj Aryal and journalist for wenepali.com Shyam Luitel were in the race for leadership.
Among other office-bearers elected are Diensh Pariyar (senior vice-president), Narendra Basnet (general secretary), Shiva Bhandari (vice-president), Prameela Labung Rai (women vice-president), Manju Bhandari and Khemraj Ranabhat (secretary), SK Gurung (treasurer) and Surendra Ingnam (co-treasurer).
Goma Rana, Narendra Nembang and Jayaram Tamang were unanimously elected as members of FNJ UK committee.
As the election could not take place face-to-face due to COVID-19 pandemic, members had sent their ballot through postal mechanism. Some 38 members had participated in the election.
Journalist Purnima Shrestha, a member of the women expedition team to scale Mt Annapurna-I, and other climbers were honoured in Myagdi on Monday amidst a grand function.
They received honour from Federation of Nepali Journalists Myagdi chapter, Annapurna Rural Municipality and local people.
Speaking at the felicitation programme, Shrestha said that she scaled the Annapurna Summit due to her self-confidence.
Earlier, a total of 67 climbers had scaled the world's 10th highest peak Mt Annapurna-I on April 16, the first of this season's expedition.
Six Nepal women including journalist Purnima Shrestha and other climbers successfully reached the top of Mt Annapurna-I (8,091m) located at Annapurna Rural Municipality-4 in Myagdi district, guide of the expedition of team Pemba Sherpa said at a felicitation programme organised in Beni.
Six women including Shrestha, Dawa Yangjum Sherpa, Pasang Lhyamu Sherpa, Maya Sherpa, Sharmila Sengtang and Dabuti Sherpa reached the summit of the mountain in a single day becoming the first women to climb Mt Annapurna. Prior to this, no woman had reached the top of Mt Annapurna.
Guide Sherpa said that the women's team reached at the top of the mountain at 1:15 am on April 16.
“Muslim students are still deprived of access to education due to lack of public awareness among Bengali (Maldaihiya) Muslims in the community and in absence of schools and campuses nearby,” stated journalist Alam.
