Five years after the passing of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize and RSF Award laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died of an untreated cancer during his detention, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes a list of 15 press freedom defenders who are in danger of losing their lives if not immediately released from prison.
In tandem with PBS premiere of Oscar-nominated Writing With Fire, learn how women journalists around the world are taking their lives in their hands to report the truth.
Recently, many around the world acknowledged International Women’s Day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. In China, it is an official holiday where women enjoy a half-day off from work. Chinese retailers have leveraged it into a major shopping event called “Queen’s Day.” The irony of a day encouraging women to buy clothing is that many of these clothes are being made on the backs of various ethnic and religious groups of women in China. While the holiday may have passed, the atrocities the Chinese government is committing against women and Uyghurs in China have not.
On this International Women s Day, we ask that you say the names of women targeted and imprisoned for exercising and advocating for freedom of religion and belief.