Updates

In early March, the Earth Journalism Network’s Bay of Bengal Project partnered with the rights-based research and advocacy organization VOICE to host a media workshop in Bhola, Bangladesh, focused on climate change and its impact on marginalized communities.

• Read more about Media Workshop in Bangladesh Highlights Struggles Faced by Fishing Boat Communities

Internews, in partnership with the Google News Initiative (GNI), has trained thousands of journalists in India and Indonesia to combat disinformation and misinformation using Google and other tools to conduct online verification, data searches, reverse image searches and video verification.

• Read more about #FactcheckingDay Celebrated by Participants in Internews’ Google News Initiative Training

Men’s treatment of women in public spaces has never received much public attention in Tajikistan. Even in Dushanbe, the country’s capital and home to nearly 1 million people, the subject has never broken into public discourse.

• Read more about In Tajikistan, Media Campaign Sparks Change in Attitudes about Sexual Harassment

Last year, Internews’ partner Dobrye Vesti, an online platform, launched a campaign, in partnership with national media outlets, aimed at raising public awareness on the ubiquity of workplace-based sexual harassment and its impact on the status of women in Kazakhstan.

• Read more about Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign Led by Local Media in Kazakhstan Leads to Demands for Policy Change

EJN Awards Grants to 14 Asian Organizations Focused on Expanding Access to Environmental Information

EJN has selected 14 organizations as recipients of its annual media grants supported by our Asia-Pacific and Bay of Bengal projects.

• Read more about Workshops and Grants Help Journalists in Asia Understand and Share Environmental Information