Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women's Media FoundationAmira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Washington, D.C. -- A Belarusian announcer who is frequently bedfast and subjected to all-night interrogations by police, a Cameroonian radio announcer whose broadcasts on animal rights and columnist abandon accept put her activity at accident and an Iranian announcer whose letters about acute amusing and political issues accept led to assorted arrests are recipients of this year's International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Awards.
"These arresting journalists accept called to address the account in three countries area following of the accuracy puts them at accident for arrest, concrete attacks and even death," said Judy Woodruff, armchair of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards. "Still, they accept consistently, for abounding years, called to accident their lives and livelihoods in advancing belief that brighten the lives of humans in their countries and acquaint us all."
Winners of the 2009 Courage in Journalism Awards are:
Iryna Khalip, 41, anchorman and editor in the Minsk agency of Novaya Gazeta. For added than 15 years, Khalip has been a announcer in Belarus, one of the a lot of backbreaking countries against journalists in the world. After alive at a assumption of newspapers, alone to see them bankrupt by the government, she now works for Novaya Gazeta, one of the a lot of absolute newspapers in the above Soviet Union, and the bi-weekly of 2002 Courage Award champ Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in 2006. Khalip has been arrested, subjected to all-night interrogations and baffled by police, who accumulate her beneath connected surveillance.
Agnes Taile, 29, anchorman for Canal 2 International, radio and television, Cameroon. Taile letters on animal rights and columnist freedom, including brave belief on the disability and bribery of government officials. In 2006, while she was a anchorman for Sweet FM, Taile accustomed threats ambitious that she stop her following of government corruption. She abandoned the threats. Not continued afterward, she was abducted from her home at knife point by three hooded men, again baffled and larboard for asleep in a ravine. Her appearance was annulled afterwards the attack. After recovering, Taile was bent to accumulate alive as a announcer and landed a new job with Canal 2 accoutrement the arctic ambit of Cameroon.
Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance anchorman and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the a lot of akin environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly appear on government and amusing oppression, decidedly as they affect women. She has been accursed from several jobs because she refuses to abridge the accountable amount of her advertisement and several of her media outlets accept been bankrupt by the government. She has catholic throughout the Middle East, autograph accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict. The capacity of her advertisement accomplish her a ambition of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and confined abundant times.
The IWMF aswell appear that it will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Amira Hass, 52, a anchorman and columnist for Ha'aretz Daily, a bi-weekly based in Tel Aviv. For about 20 years Hass has accounting alarmingly about both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. She has approved her adeptness to baffle boundaries of gender, ethnicity and adoration in her following of the accuracy in her reporting. In accoutrement the Palestinian Occupied Territories, her ambition has been to accommodate her readers with abundant advice about Israeli behavior and abnormally that of restrictions of the abandon of movement. For abounding years, she fabricated her home aboriginal in Gaza City and again in Ramallah. In 2002 the Los Angeles Times appear that Hass "is the alone Israeli Jew accepted to be active beneath Palestinian aphorism and one of a drop of Jewish reporters who still cantankerous adversary curve for the Israeli media."
Created in 1990, the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards account women journalists who accept apparent amazing backbone of appearance and candor while advertisement the account beneath alarming or difficult circumstances. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman announcer who has a beat spirit and whose assurance has paved the way for women in the account media. Including this year's accolade winners, 66 journalists accept won Courage Awards and 18 journalists accept been accustomed with Lifetime Achievement Awards. The 2009 awards will be presented at ceremonies in New York on October 20 and in Los Angeles on October 28.
Founded in 1990, the International Women's Media Foundation is a active all-around arrangement committed to deepening the role of women in the account media common as a agency to added abandon of the press. The IWMF arrangement includes women and men in the media in added than 130 countries worldwide. For added information, appointment www.iwmf.org.
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