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Azera Rehman's story wins award
Saturday April 28, 2012 06:04:31 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Azera Rehman, who reports for newswire Indo-Asian News Service has
won the prestigious IWPC awards.
Rahman' entry, titled "Letters to my unborn sister", fetched her
second prize in the contest that saw participation of 80 women
from all walks of life.
The contest by IWPC, considered to be one of the first by any
Indian media organisation, was open to women and was thematically
centered on the topic of family relationships.
The jury members
included author and publisher Urvashi Butalia and writer Geeta
Hariharan, among others.
Rahman has also won the Most Promising Young Woman Journalist
award for the year 2007 by UNFPA.
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