The panel will explore the threats that women journalists face out in the field by looking at real-life cases that the Coalition For Women in Journalism (CFWIJ) has worked on. The discussion will take...
Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska
Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska is a freelance journalist based in Uzbekistan, a former editor with New Eastern Europe magazine and a fellow with the Coalition for Women in Journalism. She has written extensively on subjects related to migration, human rights, and the far-right, mostly focusing on the post-Soviet space, Afghanistan and Lebanon. Her articles appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Calvert Journal, The Moscow Times, The Diplomat, Eurasianet and other media.
She holds a double MA degree in International Relations from the University of Kent (UK) and the Higher School of Economics (Russia). She co-edited two books on the Ukraine crisis: Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives (2015) and Migration and the Ukraine Crisis: A Two-Country Perspective (2017). She is currently working on her first reporting book on Uzbekistan which will be published in 2021 by Wydawnictwo Czarne (Poland).
Central Asia - namely Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan - rarely makes headlines of the international press. While over the past few years, the region has undergone signi...