Every three days in the UK, a woman is murdered by her partner or ex-partner. These killings are often the endpoint to a sustained period of coercive control, yet journalists have not historically bee...
Megha Mohan
Megha Mohan is the BBC World Service’s first gender & identity correspondent. There, she tells stories on subcultures, with a focus on women and minority communities across Asia, Africa, the US and Europe. Her original journalism includes the unsolved murders of young lesbians in Chile (which led to an arrest), military detention of Palestinian children in the West Bank and use of Deepfake technology as a harassment tool. She files for BBC global TV, radio and online.
Press regulators in the UK have backed the first-ever reporting guidelines on fatal domestic abuse. In this session, the author of the guidelines Janey Starling will explain their content, importance ...
It's been several years since INSI carried out a survey into harassment in the newsroom and found that 1/3 women journalists had experience violence or harassment in the course of their work. In light...
Worldwide, 1 out of 5 women suffers violence from her partner, only 23.4% of MPs are women, and it will take 217 years to close the gender pay gap. All of these figures are true. Nevertheless, they po...
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