Five Scroll stories win 2024 Laadli Media Awards
The awards honour those in media and advertising who highlight gender sensitivity.
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Five Scroll stories by Rokibuz Zaman, Johanna Deeksha, Mahima Jain and Tora Agarwala won the 2024 Laadli Media Awards on Wednesday.
Zaman won the award in the ‘Web – News Report’ category for English-language reporting. Deeksha won the award in the ‘Web – Investigative Story’ category in English.
Jain won the award in the ‘Web – Feature’ category for English-language reporting while Agarwala won the award in the ‘Web – Article’ category in English.
The Laadli Media Award was instituted in 2007 by Population First, a nonprofit supported by the United Nations Population Fund. The awards honour, recognise and celebrate the efforts of those in news media and advertising who highlight gender sensitivity.
Zaman won the award for his reporting on how Assam Police’s crackdown on child marriage in February 2023 led to broken families.
Several persons told Zaman that the police action was politically motivated, targeting Muslims of Bengali origin. Activists and observers also said that the retrospective punitive action against child marriage will do more harm than good.
Read: In Assam, a police crackdown on child marriage leaves a trail of crying women and broken families
Deeksha won the award for her piece involving young Muslim women in Karnataka recounting how a March 2022 High Court order banning hijabs, or headscarves, legitimised Hindutva prejudice and...
