Zan Times
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Zan Times is an award wining Afghan women-led digital newsroom that reports on human rights situation in Afghanistan with a focus on women and LGBTQ issues. Zan Times is a registered non-profit organization, based in Canada.[1][2][3][4][5]
Zan Times works with a team of mostly women journalists based in Afghanistan and in exile. It produces and publishes original investigations, feature reports, first hand narratives, and opinion pieces in Farsi-Dari and English.[6]
History[edit]
It was established by a group mostly women journalists and writers in August 2022 one year after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan to report on the repression of women’s rights.[7]
Ever since, Zan Times has been reporting on focusing on women and LGBTQI+ rights, and documenting the Taliban’s gender policies that has been described as "gender persecution and an institutionalized framework of gender apartheid"[8] by UN human rights experts.[9][10]
Major reports[edit]
Zan Times has produced several major investigative reports, which were picked up and reported on by other news outlets and widely shared and discussed on social media.
In October 2022, Zan Times reported on the Taliban’s murder of women activists in Mazar-e-Sharif as the regime cracked down on women’s protests.
A Zan Times fact-checking investigative report on Zarifa Ghafari, the former mayor of Maidan Shahr , which demonstrated major inconsistencies in the life story she has presented to Western audiences. The report, “Who is the real Zarifa Ghafari?” was published in June 2023.
In August 2023, a Zan Times investigation into the rise of female suicide in Afghanistan, which was published in partnership with the Fuller Project and the Guardian.
Public Afghan Women's Archive[edit]
With financial support from the Centre for Information Resilience’s Afghan Witness project, Zan Time launched an archive documenting violence against socially and politically active women. The archive so far documented 49 cases of violence against women. These cases include 34 arrests, one disappearance, and 14 murders of women[11][12].
Awards[edit]
Zan Times won the 2024 Human Right Press Award. Zan Times shares the top prize in inaugural “Newsroom in Exile” category for its investigation documenting the rise of suicide among Afghan women and girls living under the Taliban repression.[13]
Zan Times won the 2024 Johann-Philipp-Palm-Award for Freedom of Speech and the Press, along with imprisoned Belarusian journalist Maryna Zolatava.[14]
In November 2023, Zan Times was recognized as one of the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s eNews at its 23rd Annual Gala in New York City[15]
A 2023 Zan Times investigative report into the rise of suicide for young women in Afghanistan, was nominated for a One World Media print award.[16]
The same Zan Times report into the rise of suicide for young women in Afghanistan has become a finalist in the Canadian Association of Journalists finalists for 2023's top investigative journalism awards[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ e.V, Reporter ohne Grenzen. "Hohe Auszeichnung für Journalistinnen aus Belarus und Afghanistan". Reporter ohne Grenzen für Informationsfreiheit (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ↑ "Asia: 2024 Human Rights Press Awards | Human Rights Watch". 2024-05-02. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ↑ "Afghanistan: An online magazine for women – DW – 01/24/2024". dw.com. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Times, Nepali (2022-12-28). "Afghan women expose Taliban atrocities". nepalitimes.com. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ "From Safety of Exile, Journalist Gives Platform to Afghan Women". Voice of America. 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Dancey-Downs, Katie (2023-04-07). "The daily risks taken by Afghanistan's female journalists". Index on Censorship. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ "A journey of learning - The story of Zahra Nader". www.canada.ca. 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ "Two Years of the Taliban's 'Gender Apartheid' in Afghanistan". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ↑ Times, Nepali (2022-12-28). "Afghan women expose Taliban atrocities". nepalitimes.com. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ "From Safety of Exile, Journalist Gives Platform to Afghan Women". Voice of America. 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Times, Zan (2024-04-23). "Zan Times Archive: Documenting violence against public women in Afghanistan". Zan Times. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ↑ Witness, Afghan (2024-04-21). "Rising reports of femicide: new digital map documents cases of violence and repression of Afghan women in 'public' roles". Centre for Informati. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ↑ "Asia: 2024 Human Rights Press Awards | Human Rights Watch". 2024-05-02. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ↑ e.V, Reporter ohne Grenzen. "Hohe Auszeichnung für Journalistinnen aus Belarus und Afghanistan". Reporter ohne Grenzen für Informationsfreiheit (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ↑ eNews, Editors at Women's (2023-10-10). "21 Leaders for the 21st Century: 14 Honorees Announced". Women's eNews. Retrieved 2024-04-17.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
- ↑ "Longlist 2024". One World Media. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Durette, Monique (2024-04-16). "Canadian Association of Journalists announces finalists for this year's top investigative journalism awards competition". Canadian Association of Journalists. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
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