Writing
On conflict
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“NYC Told Doctors Without Symptoms To Not Take A Coronavirus Test — Even If They Are Exposed,” BuzzFeed News, March 24, 2020
“Trump’s Insidious Reason for Leaving the UN Human Rights Council,” The Atlantic, June 20, 2018
“The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out,” Foreign Policy, October 12, 2017
“There are no real ‘safe zones’ and there never have been,” Foreign Policy, March 30, 2017
“The Village That Cannot Sleep,” The Guardian, August 3, 2016
“What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo,” Foreign Policy, June 23, 2016 (and translated into French on Slate here)
“If 18-month-old girls are being gang-raped, why are the suspects still free?” The Guardian, June 20, 2016
“Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing.” Foreign Policy, March 30, 2016, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Mass rape as a weapon of war: Bosnia verdict a warning to leaders who unbolt the heart of darkness,” The International Business Times, March 29, 2016
“Seeking a Better Life,” Ms. Magazine, Spring 2016
“When does the violation of women’s bodies become a ‘red line’?” openDemocracy 50.50, January 11, 2016
“The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem,” Foreign Policy, August 13, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“When War and Weather Conspire,” Foreign Policy, July 24, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)“Why the people crossing the Mediterranean aren’t ‘migrants’,” Reuters, July 2, 2015
“The Worst of All Horrors, Foreign Policy,” Foreign Policy, June 11, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Refugees in Their Own Homeland,” Foreign Policy, May 15, 2015
“Suffocating Congo’s War,” Foreign Policy, February 7, 2015
“How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo,” Foreign Policy, February 2, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Doctors Without Scruples,” Foreign Policy, December 16, 2014
“Come for the Golden Pagod
as, Stay for the War Crimes,” Foreign Policy, December 11, 2014
“Trapped in Syria,” Foreign Policy, November 13, 2014, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“#BringBackOurJournalists,” Foreign Policy, November 6, 2014, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Losing the Lonely War,” Foreign Policy, July 8, 2014
“Intimacy That Kills,” Foreign Policy, June 6, 2014
“A Tidal Wave of Trauma,” Foreign Policy, May 27, 2014 (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Will There Ever Be Justice for Syria’s Rape Survivors?” The Nation, May 14, 2014
“The Lost Girls,” Foreign Policy, May 5, 2014 (left)
“Abuse of Power,” Foreign Policy, April 14, 2014
“Violence Begets Violence,” Foreign Policy, April 4, 2014
“How Rwandans Cope with the Horror of 1994,” The Atlantic, April 4, 2014
“Blind Spot: Why do convictions for the world’s worst crimes neglect survivors of rape?,” Foreign Policy, March 12, 2014 (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Unarmed and Dangerous: With civilian rape on the rise, the war on Congo’s women comes painfully, pervasively home,” Foreign Policy, March 7, 2014 (and translated into French on Slate here)
“What’s going on in Syria is about a lot more than chemical weapons,” The Guardian, October 26, 2013
“Where is ‘red line’ on rape in war?” CNN.com, September 17, 2013
“A Syrian Ref
ugee Wedding,” The Nation, June 24-July 1, 2013 edition (left)
“Take Your Portion’: A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria,” The Atlantic, June 18, 2013
“Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis,” The Atlantic, April 3, 2013
“End culture of rape in 2013,” CNN.com, January 1, 2013
“Are Women Being Targeted in Syria?” The Atlantic, December 10, 2012 (below left)
“Revealing Rape – How to Illustrate a Crime,” WITNESS, December 6, 2012
“Rape is shredding Syria’s social fabric,” CNN.com, December 5, 2012 (below left)
“Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict,” UK Foreign Commonwealth Office blog, December 3, 2012
“Sexualized Violence in Syria: Keeping Track of a Crisis in Motion,” Syria Deeply, December 1, 2012
“The Misogyny Behind an Attempted Assassination of a Man in Congo,” The Atlantic, October 31, 2012
“Sexual violence is tearing N
ative American communities apart,” By Lauren Wolfe and Lauren Chief Elk, The Guardian, September 8, 2012
“The ultimate assault: Charting Syria’s use of rape to terrorize its people,” The Atlantic, July 11, 2012
“Sexual violence against women is the result of the cult of masculinity,” By Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe, The Guardian, February 24, 2012
“Reckoning with a genocide in Guatemala,” The Atlantic, February 10, 2012
“Gloria Steinem on Rape in War, Its Causes, and How to Stop It,” The Atlantic, February 8, 2012
“Can we end rape as tool of war?” By Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe, CNN.com, February 8, 2012
Sundry bylined articles
“U.N. Sexual Assault Investigations Die in Darkness,” Foreign Policy, March 18, 2018
“President Trump, stop blocking me on Twitter,” CNN.com, June 9, 2017
“India rape case a chilling reminder for women everywhere,” CNN.com, July 19, 2016
“A Miserable Mystery in Congo,” Foreign Policy, April 9, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Not Monsters, But Men,” Foreign Policy, March 6, 2015, (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Gender and the Virus,” Ms. Magazine, Winter 2015
“Why Are So Many Women Dying From Ebola?,” Foreign Policy, August 20, 2014
“Turn On, Retweet, Tune Out,” Foreign Policy, August 5, 2014 (and translated into French on Slate here)
“Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side,” The New York Times, May 23, 2014
“Abuse of Power,” Foreign Policy, April 14, 2014
“Abused for Surviving: What Amanda Lindhout Faces After Captivity,” The Nation, September 24, 2013 (below)
“10 views: Our struggle to ‘have it all,’” CNN.com, March 12, 2013
“That’s My Issue: Ending Rape,” WNYC.org, August 17, 2012
Uganda’s War as a Bush Wife,” Gender Across Borders, September 21, 2011 (cross-posted on RH Reality Check)
“The Constant, Crippling Pain Many Women Think They Have to Endure,” AlterNet, June 2, 2011 (reprinted on Feminist.com, August 2011)
“Far Out,” The Boston Phoenix, May 4, 2007
“For Desperate Souls, A Last Chance No More,” The New York Times, January 14, 2007
“The Teflon Monsignor: Despite Documented Facts, Bishop Murphy Still Escapes Blame,” Long Island Press, August 5, 2004
“Hip Transplant: Shops Venture Manhattanward,” The New York Times, January 11, 2004
Chapter in At Ground Zero: 25 Stories from Young Reporters Who Were There, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002
“Little Lost Angels Reborn Atop the Flatiron Building,” The New York Times, September 2, 2001
On sexualized violence and journalists
“Another journalist reports sex
assault in Tahrir Square,” Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), June 26, 2012
“More discussion but few changes on sexual violence,” CPJ, February 21, 2012
“One Victim’s Battle to End Sexual Violence Against Journalists,” The Atlantic, November 4, 2011
“The silencing crime: Sexual violence and journalists,” CPJ, June 7, 2011
“When rape is inevitable: Surviving imprisonment in Iran,” CPJ, July 7, 2011
“Trapped In The Story: Local Journalists Face Sexual Violence,” On the Issues magazine, July 6, 2011
“Women journalists speak out on sexual attacks,” CNN.com, June 7, 2011 (above left)
“Sexual violence: A tool of intimidation,” Global Journalist, March 10, 2011
“Documenting sexual violence against journalists,” CPJ, February 16, 2011