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Scroll.in’s @AarefaJohari wins Chameli Devi Jain Award

Since 1981, the award has been recognising women journalists who have upheld standards of excellence in journalism through a sustained body of work.
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@AarefaJohari .@AarefaJohari's work “shone through with its combination of meticulous reportage, humanism and empathy, all reflecting a high order of journalistic excellence”, a three-member jury in a statement said scroll.in/latest/1021054

Harish Khare, chair of the Media Foundation, said that @AarefaJohari's reportage is an “outstanding example of a journalist’s everyday privilege to help society demand fairness and justness”.

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In an investigation into India’s worst offshore disaster that led to the tragic death of 86 workers off the coast of Mumbai, @AarefaJohari nailed down how a maze of companies, including govt-owned ONGC, had prioritised profits over the safety of workers
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In several of her stories, @AarefaJohari sensitively and insightfully examined continuing injustices at the intersection of gender and labour.

In Gujarat, she probed how patriarchy persisted even when land ownership was transferred to women farmers. scroll.in/article/1003476

In Jharkhand, @AarefaJohari reported on women workers who had defied their families to take up employment in Tamil Nadu, only to find themselves stranded during the coronavirus lockdown. The trauma led to many of them dropping out of the paid workforce. scroll.in/article/1005372

In Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra,@AarefaJohari looked at how the crucial work of women anganwadi workers, who are at the frontlines of India’s battle against malnutrition, was being derailed by a poorly designed technological intervention.

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Through the year,@AarefaJohari found newer, compelling ways to shine light on the precarity of working-class

She wrote about how the privatisation of municipal services in Mumbai had resulted in sanitation workers being absurdly declared “volunteers”

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Scroll.in reporter @AarefaJohari wins the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson 2021 scroll.in/a/1021054

In several of her stories, Johari sensitively and insightfully examined continuing injustices at the intersection of gender and labour.