APWLD Media Fellowship on Digitalisation and Feminist Digital Rights and Justice

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) invites women media professionals, journalists, data and visual journalists across Asia and the Pacific region to participate in the APWLD Media Fellowship on Digitalisation and Feminist Digital Rights and Justice.

The APWLD Media Fellowship was launched in 2018 to respond to the pressing need to spotlight the voices and stories of women from marginalised communities. It aims to increase space and influence of feminist narratives and demands in diverse media platforms to advance women’s human rights, feminist digital rights and Development Justice

This year’s media fellowship aims to deepen the media, data and visual reportage on the rise of digitalisation in the region and its gendered impact on women and their communities.

Duration

The duration of the fellowship will be from May 2025 to May 2026. During this period, the fellows will have an option to produce news, feature, photo, data and/or podcast/audio stories, audio-video content/documentary and/or combination of these formats with a feminist lens that highlight the gendered impact of digitalisation on women’s human rights.

Objectives of this fellowship

• To produce stories that highlight feminist analysis and demands on digitalisation, digital rights and justice issues and their gendered impact on women and their communities in mainstream and alternative media platforms.
• To influence and shape the public discourse on digitalisation and encourage reporting from feminist perspectives, in the process influencing policies and conversations in advocacy spaces.
• To support APWLD members’ and partners’ campaigns and advocacy at national and regional levels and their media advocacy work.

Themes

Major themes of the fellowship include:

• Digitalisation and its impact on women’s work and livelihoods
• Data privacy, digital surveillance and militarism/wars
• Misinformation and disinformation
• Rise of digital authoritarianism
• Autonomy and bodily integrity
• Environment, Agriculture and Economy

How to apply

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2025. To learn more and apply, please click here.