Farida Nekzad wins courage award from IWMF.Byline: Pajhwok Report Farida Nekzad wins courage award from IWMF IWMF International Women's Media Foundation (Washington, DC) IWMF International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Pajhwok Report - Jun 26, 2008 - 18:22 KABUL (PAN): Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad and Sevgul Uludag of Cyprus are declared winners of the famous Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women's Media Foundation The International Women’s Media Foundation is a network of thousands of women journalists working internationally to elevate the status of women in the media. The IWMF has created groundbreaking programs to help women in the media develop practical solutions to the obstacles Farida Nekzad, 31 is the managing editor of Pajhwok News Agency and vice president of the South Asia This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. For geophysical treatments, see Indian subcontinent. South Asia, also known as Southern Asia Media Commission. Nekzad frequently receives phone calls and email messages threatening her life. During the funeral service funeral service n → misa de cuerpo presente funeral service n → service m funèbre funeral service funeral n of her colleague, Zakia Zaki Zakia Zaki (d. June 6, 2007) was an Afghan female journalist. She was the director and owner of Afghan Radio Peace, which broadcast out of Parwan province, north of the capital of Kabul, Afghanistan. , who was murdered, she received calls saying that she would have the same fate. After she wrote a story in 2003 about a warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors , Nekzad narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt. She now frequently switches the car she drives, changes her schedule daily and sleeps in a different room in her home each night to prevent ambush by potential attackers. Despite working under tremendous pressure at a time when women journalists in particular are being threatened for their reporting in Afghanistan, Nekzad is committed to staying in her country to work toward a free press and greater equality for women journalists. Sevgul Uludag, 49, an investigative reporter for Yeniduzen newspaper in Cyprus. Uludag has been a journalist for nearly three decades. In 2002, she began writing about missing people and mass graves in Cyprus. Her reporting started a public debate about the issue of missing people and mass graves and led to official searches and exhumations. Uludag lives in the northern part of divided Cyprus but through her reporting attempts to ease the segregation between the Greek and Turkish communities. In doing so, she has faced many obstacles, including death threats and violent attacks. In April 2003, the daily paper Volkan, mouthpiece of the nationalist movement, pronounced threats of murder against Uludag and called upon readers to "cut off the tongue of Sevgul Uludag." But neither hate campaigns nor psychological terror keep Uludag from publishing her articles. The IWMF also announced that it will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Edith Lederer, 65, chief correspondent at the United Nations for the Associated Press. Lederer, who is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , began her journalism career in 1966. In her more than four decades with the AP, she has worked on every continent except Antarctica covering wars, famines, nuclear issues and political upheavals. Lederer was the first female resident correspondent in Vietnam in 1972; she lived in a jail with a guard for protection because most other reporters were men. She was the first woman to head an AP foreign bureau in Peru, the first AP reporter to cross the Yalu River after the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. and the first journalist to file the bulletin announcing the start of the first Gulf War. She wrote about covering the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Who Covered Vietnam. Created in 1990, the IWMF Courage in Journalism Awards honors women journalists who have shown extraordinary strength of character and integrity while reporting the news under dangerous or difficult circumstances. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman journalist who has a pioneering spirit and whose determination has paved the way for women in the news media. Including this year's award winners, 63 journalists have won Courage Awards and 17 journalists have been honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. The 2008 awards will be presented at ceremonies in Los Angeles on October 16 and New York on October 21. Award winners will attend a reception and panel discussion in Washington, D.C., on October 9. 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