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      Janine di Giovanni

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      Janine di Giovanni is the founder and chief executive of The Reckoning Project, an international NGO documenting war crimes and advancing accountability efforts in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine. A veteran war correspondent with more than three decades of experience, she has reported from nearly every major conflict zone of the modern era and witnessed three genocides, with a career focused on human rights and civilian protection. She is the author of eight books and the recipient of more than a dozen journalistic and humanitarian awards. She has previously held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University. She lives between New York City and Paris and is the mother of one son.
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      Fauda
      'Fauda', the Netflix show, got one too many things wrong

      By posing as journalists or humanitarians, security forces undermine the role of free press and relief workers

      OpinionMay 18, 2020
      Foreign workers standing in line as they wait to be checked for the novel coronavirus at a testing centre in the Naif area of the Gulf Emirate of Dubai, are reflected against the helmet of a policeman, on April 15, 2020. / AFP / KARIM SAHIB
      Camera8
      Coronavirus: Doctors are the new marines

      There is talk in America of rewarding health workers fighting the pandemic the way the country rewards its veterans, and this is an approach the whole world should take on

      OpinionApril 19, 2020
      A doctor walks past 3D printers installed to mass produce medical equipment to equip health workers and to treat patients at the Cochin Hospital in Paris as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues in France, April 3, 2020. Reuters
      Contain the virus, America. Lessons from the French

      Unlike Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron called coronavirus a “war” as a result of which France has been better prepared to control the spread of Covid-19

      CommentApril 07, 2020
      FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a videoconference of the "economic task force", at the Elysee Palace, with French economic leaders and members of the governement amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears, in Paris, France March 19, 2020. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
      Camera9
      France under lockdown: a dispatch from behind the 'invisible enemy' lines

      From Paris to the Vercors, the French are called upon to face the pandemic with resourcefulness and applomb

      OpinionMarch 23, 2020
      Journalists and TV crews ride in the back of an Iraqi forces humvee in the Old City of Mosul on June 30, 2017. AFP
      Conflict journalism needs a code of ethics and needs it now

      Irresponsible war reporting has led to a string of abuses and even deaths, and it has to end

      CommentMarch 10, 2020
      AUSTIN, TX - FEBRUARY 23: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a campaign rally at Vic Mathias Shores Park on February 23, 2020 in Austin, Texas. With early voting underway in Texas, Sanders is holding four rallies in the delegate-rich state this weekend before traveling on to South Carolina. Texas holds their primary on Super Tuesday March 3rd, along with over a dozen other states. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
      Socialism and education in the US: what it will take for everyone to be able to afford school

      The US education system is radically unfair and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are sparking a conversation about alternatives

      CommentFebruary 24, 2020
      Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren during a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Matt Rourke / AP
      I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but I support Elizabeth Warren in 2020

      The Democratic Party candidate has my vote because she is someone I admire – not because she is a woman

      CommentJanuary 27, 2020
      Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Court for his sexual assault trial in New York City, January 9, 2020. Brendan McDermid / Reuters
      Weinstein's trial: the idea of justice and the trouble with being too "woke"

      The global reckoning on the abuse of power is extraordinary but without proof, allegations can have damaging consequences

      CommentJanuary 13, 2020
      A Syrian woman in the governorate of Idlib. The woman is among thousands of civilians who have fled a Russian-backed offensive by the regime on the rebel town of Maaret Al Numaan in the south of the province December 27, 2019. AFP
      Lessons from war zones: what Syria, Bosnia and Chechnya had in common

      All wars are characterised by crimes of unimaginable horror but despite templates that overlap, no two conflicts are the same

      CommentDecember 29, 2019
      Elizabeth Warren, one of the Democratic presidential candidates, has a reputation for being tough and honest. Zach Gibson / Getty Images
      Despite her Syria gaffe, Elizabeth Warren deserves a shot at the US presidency

      The American people should focus on this Democratic Party candidate's integrity and genuine desire to bring change

      CommentOctober 20, 2019
      Idlib remains the last remaining stronghold for the rebels in their fight against government forces. AFP
      As the Syrian Civil War drags on, the world must not turn its back on it

      With world leaders distracted by events in Europe and the US, there is every chance the conflict will continue to rage unnoticed

      CommentOctober 06, 2019
      Mary "Cokie" Roberts appears at the National Press Foundation's 26th annual awards dinner in Washington, DC. AFP / GETTY IMAGES
      Cokie Roberts and the women who paved the way for the rest of us

      From Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles to the women who reported on the Arab uprisings, we can take lessons from their mentorship and bravado

      CommentSeptember 23, 2019
      Zimbabweans protesting outside the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. AP
      Mugabe's death is a reminder of the little voices shouting loudest for change

      The lessons of non-violent action are relevant to us all, wherever we are in the world

      CommentSeptember 08, 2019
      File Photo: French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump with other G7 leaders AFP
      G7 is a great opportunity for Macron to model himself as the new leader of Europe

      To his detractors, the French president is arrogant but he has the intelligence and wisdom to unite a fractured continent

      CommentAugust 25, 2019
      President Richard Nixon is seen in the Oval Office of the White House, 1969. AP Photo
      Forty-five years on from Nixon, America needs to heal once again

      Nixon’s resignation 45 years ago was followed by greater accountability. We need a new reckoning, writes Janine di Giovanni

      CommentAugust 12, 2019
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