AP Sponsors Print Sale to Increase Cash for Afghan Girls Journalists

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) has launched a print sale initiative along with the Related Press (AP) to boost funds for girls journalists affected by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

The latest political disaster in Afghanistan has affected quite a few lives of the residents, each those that nonetheless stay within the nation and those that have managed to flee.

Press and media professionals — each native and international — who cowl information and occasions within the nation have been impacted by way of severely imposed censorship and, extra importantly, life-threatening aggression beneath the brand new regime. The scenario is much more so harmful for girls and ladies professionals specifically.

NWMI — a non-funded, non-partisan discussion board for girls within the media —  has announced it stands in solidarity with Afghan women journalists throughout this era of political disaster. One a part of its mission is to boost cash by way of a print sale, run in partnership with The Media Safety & Solidarity Fund and in collaboration with AP, which offered the pictures.

The objective is to boost funds to assist Afghanistan’s girls journalists “inform their tales amidst all odds.” The raised cash will probably be directed in the direction of discovering secure homes, evacuations, rebuilding small media start-ups, settling in new international locations, or discovering methods to permit these professionals to proceed telling their tales.

The gathering of pictures within the print sale options work by AP’s “bravest and most proficient visible journalists” and showcases moments captured from the day by day lifetime of Afghanistan for greater than twenty years. Every print prices $100, excluding delivery, and is printed on 10-inch by 15-inch Hahnemuhle Photograph Rag 308GSM Matt High quality Artwork paper.

A paper by IFJ South Asia Press Freedom Report reveals that the interval of 2020 by way of to 2021 has been one of many deadliest for journalists in Afghanistan, with eight journalists — 4 of them girls — killed between Might 2020 and April 2021.

20 others have acquired horrific accidents, have been wounded, or imprisoned. Others, reminiscent of Los Angeles Occasions photojournalist Marcus Yam, have managed to flee largely unscathed.

The violence nonetheless continues, particularly after the Taliban’s full takeover in August. In August, PetaPixel reported on the demise of Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer for Reuters from India, who died after being unintentionally left behind throughout a scattered retreat of a Afghanistan Particular Operations Corps.

“Such violence and a declining safety scenario characterize a critical counter-threat to the achievements of the final twenty years within the subject of freedom of expression and a free press in Afghanistan,” says the report.

The NWMI fundraiser will run for 3 weeks, beginning with September 7, 2021, and ending September 30, 2021. Extra details about the fundraiser and the accessible prints will be discovered on the Journalists for Afghanistan website.

Picture credit: Featured picture by Grasp Sgt. Andy Dunaway, public area, through Wikimedia Commons.