Neha Madhira
Bio:
Neha Madhira is a journalist who focuses on women’s health and education in the Middle East and South Asia.
She is currently finishing up her B.A. in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Previously, Madhira was an avid press rights activist after speaking out against censorship at her high school newspaper. The story received coverage from over 30 media publications and she continued on to become a student leader for the New Voices movement, where she spoke on the importance of the rights of students and teachers across the country. She has won 20 journalism awards, including the WMC Young Journalist award.
Around 70 percent of those killed in Gaza the last few months have been women and children, with two mothers killed every hour, and one child estimated to be killed every 10 minutes, according to UN sources.
Two female journalists who have been in jail since reporting on the killing of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by Iran’s morality police Oct. 2022 have been temporarily released on bail.
The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
The recent earthquakes in western Afghanistan and ongoing aftershocks have been devastating.
A year after protests in Iran erupted over a Kurdish woman’s death, initiating the largest uprising against the country’s clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, activists continue to fight.
A Kurdish teenage girl is in critical condition after collapsing on a Tehran metro on October 1.
Thousands of women have been leading protests in the northeastern state of Manipur, India.
Of the 750 million South Asians affected by at least one climate-related disaster in the last two decades, women have been disproportionately impacted.
Up to 7,000 Iranian schoolgirls have been poisoned in organized campus attacks in at least 28 of 31 of the country’s provinces, as reported by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Since the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the rights and freedoms of Afghans have been violated.
The United Nations Satellite Centre imagery points towards an estimated 8 million people still exposed to flooded areas.
Worldwide demonstrations are taking place in support of Iran’s uprising, calling for more freedom regarding the country’s strict hijab mandate.
Los Angeles reported the most hate crimes of any U.S. city this century, followed by New York City.
On December 1, after hearing close to two hours of debate on a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, the Supreme Court appeared open to upholding the state law.
With most schools across the country switching to online learning due to COVID-19, many colleges and universities have waived standardized test requirements in their admissions processes.
This Book Is Anti-Racist also aims to empower young people to disrupt and uproot racial systems that have been in place for several years.
More must be done to ensure that the most intimate yet essential needs of women and young girls around the world are met during this crisis.
Johnson not only calculated the trajectory for America’s first space trip with astronaut Alan Shepard and the calculations for the first moon landing in 1969 but also overcame racism and sexism throughout her career.
Nakate, who is the founder of the climate action groups Youth for Future Africa and the Rise Up Movement, confronted the publication on Twitter, writing, “Why did you remove me from the photo? I was part of the group!"
The CAA’s language grants a legal path to citizenship for only some "persecuted minorities." Muslims, as well as groups like Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, and Buddhist refugees from Tibet, are all left out.
Over one billion people live with disability, yet this group is barely represented in the media.
While it is important that activists hold people who use their privilege to abuse others accountable, whether that’s through physical actions or offensive “jokes,” some also argue that cancel culture does not give people any room to learn from making mistakes.
It took several months for me to realize what I was doing to myself. By then, I was already experiencing burnout.
Although we may always question whether or not we will be reprimanded for publishing a certain story, female journalists must continue to make ourselves and those around us aware of the issues self-censorship creates in the long run.
Robin on anti-feminist women, Russian trolls' new targets, Iowa's corn-fed sex crimes, and the 6th Mass Extinction. Guests: Neha Madhira and Haley Stack, teenage Texas journalists who fought to free their high school newspaper from censorship.
