Provincial gender coordinators of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) met with officials of Saday-e Bano, RTA and Mumtaz radio stations in Faryab, Killid Radio Station in Nangarhar, and representatives of women journalists in Badakhshan province.
The AJSC’s provincial gender coordinators, in the meetings with media officials and women journalists of these provinces, discussed the challenges facing women in media such as lack of access to information, economic hardships, lack of women’s presence in the media, restrictions, and lack of capacity building and training programs for women.
In these meetings, the media officials and women journalists of these provinces expressed their concerns about the difficulties facing women journalists and the lack of adequate support from the international media support organizations, and demanded that these problems be addressed.
The AJSC’s provincial gender coordinators, in addition to providing information on the AJSC’s activities, said that the AJSC has consistently worked to address challenges facing journalists, especially women journalists.
