28 Mar 2012
New York, March 28, 2012—The Women’s Media Center project Women Under Siege has begun a pioneering initiative to map personal experiences and secondhand reports of sexualized violence in Syria. Using crowdsourcing technology from Ushahidi, WomenUnderSiegeSyria.crowdmap.com is able to collect the egregiously untold evidence of sexual assaults in real time as the crisis rages—before much of [...]
9 Mar 2012
Guatemala City—There’s a heavy green to this place, layered. Clouds weigh on the hills and seep into the trees and grass and leaves and bushes. Every clearing we pass turns to depths, and in those reaches are thousands and thousands of bodies, and just as many memories of torture.
25 Feb 2012
Maybe you noticed that my website suddenly looks different. There’s a reason for that. I’ve been trying to think how to phrase what this reason is in a direct, clear way. All I can come up with is this:
21 Feb 2012
When word went around that a mob had sexually assaulted CBS correspondent and CPJ board member Lara Logan in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in February 2011, the media jumped on the specifics: Why was the press release about her assault so precise? Why did it say the attack was “brutal” and “sexual”? What people didn’t know [...]
10 Feb 2012
GUATEMALA CITY — A man in a mask opens a door. The smell of rot hovers in the air and everywhere there are piles of paper—pink, yellow, white, all a bit aged and possibly very important. When searching through the 80 million documents dumped in the archives of the Guatemalan National Police, it’s never clear [...]
8 Feb 2012
We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh’s 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left [...]
