Journalism is a dangerous job for women in Afghanistan. Two women reporters were killed last month. Some of their colleagues are being threatened they could be next.

Radio reporter Zakia Zaki was shot seven times on June 6 as she slept at home with her son. She had spoken out against local warlords who warned her about the content broadcast by her radio station.

Just five days before, broadcaster Shokiba Sanga Amaaj was killed inside her Kabul home. Amaaj, who worked for Shamdhad TV, was shot in the back.

The list of threats and violence continue but Afghan women working in the news refuse to stop their reporting. Instead, they're taking preventative steps, changing their routines, working different shifts, and doing anything they can to elude potential attackers.

Death threats against Farida Nekzad, managing editor of the Pahjwok news agency, have been streaming in, first by phone, then by e-mail.

"Again they repeated, Inshallah (if Allah wills), we will kill you soon, as soon as possible," she told CTV's Paul Workman.

After evading a kidnapping attempt, Nekzad has now begun switching cars. She has been dodging would-be assassins since Zaki's funeral, where she received her first threat for writing extensively on women's rights, drug lords and warlords.

While all journalists certainly face challenges in Afghanistan, there is further scrutiny on women working in the field. Though there have certainly been improvements since the Taliban regime fell in 2001, some local leaders and Taliban members have vocally objected to women in leadership roles and in the public eye.

Despite the menacing threats, Nekzad said the fight for Afghan women rights is worth the danger.

"The thing I respect and love is freedom," she said. "Freedom of speech and the media."

She's not alone in her fight for journalistic freedom.

Shukria Barakzai, another prominent commentator as well as a member of parliament, said there have been attempts to bomb her house. Though she remains on the job, she said she has no doubt she will eventually be killed.

"I'm a very soft target," she said, adding that getting to her will be done "quite easily."

She has already received a letter from Afghan intelligence informing her she is on a suicide attack list.

Though women have appealed to the government and to police for protection, many feel as if their pleas have fallen on deaf -- or maybe indifferent -- ears.

With a report from CTV's Paul Workman