Woman Journalist in Somalia Receives Death Threats

Bisharo Waeys, a television journalist in Somalia, escaped attempts on her life on May 4. Waeys was driving to her home in Bossasso when she came under fire from several armed men but escaped by accelerating quickly and driving away. The next day, she received two text messages threatening to kill her if she did not stop her program. Waeys is the only woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia.
Read about Waeys on Reporters Without Borders' Web site.

Gender Analysis Released by the MIW Radio Group

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group has released a 2007 Gender Analysis study. According to the study, out of more than 10,000 radio stations, only about 15 percent have women general managers. For full details, click the link below to read the report.
Read the PDF of the MIW Report.

Former Lifetime Award Winner Reports for Newsweek

Peta Thornycroft, the recipient of a 2007 IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote an article for Newsweek magazine about the situation in Zimbabwe. "We forgot to remember that Mugabe's democratic urges are never more than brief spasms," she wrote.
Read Thornycroft's piece in Newsweek.