Reporting on Women's Issues Thomson Reuters Foundation Training Course Start date: 11 Nov 2012 | End date: 16 Nov 2012 Location: Barcelona, Spain Language: English Application deadline: 30 Sep 2012 There is now a broad understanding that strengthening women’s voices and participation in public life as well as in decision-making is crucial to development worldwide. This is a timely opportunity for journalists to convey the voices of a population … [Read more...]
ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: Libyan Woman Fights to Tell Her Rape Story
March 29, 2011 by
Libyan Woman Fights to Tell Her Rape Story For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light – Mark 4:22 I just read on Care2Make a Difference about a Libyan woman who was trying to tell the media about her horrific ordeal at the hands of Muammar el-Qaddafi’s militia. According to the New York Times, the woman who identified herself as Eman al-Obeidy burst into a Tripoli hotel where the foreign press … [Read more...]
