The IWMF's Mission is to strengthen the role of women in the news media worldwide.
Natalia Estemirova, Russian human rights NGO Memorial’s representative in Chechnya and a former journalist, was found murdered July 15 in Chechnya. Estemirova was a friend and former collaborator of Anna Politkovskaya, a 2002 winner of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award who was murdered in 2006. Estemirova was working on a highly sensitive case in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital. Read more in The Guardian.
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