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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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      The European Parliament in Brussels during a debate in May on the EU's response to Israel's plan for the Gaza Strip. EPA
      CommentEurope's tepid response to Israel's strikes says a lot

      The EU is capable of strong action – as seen on Ukraine but its approach is different when it comes to crises in the Middle East

      CommentJune 19, 2025
      Ukrainian rescuers working at the site where a drone hit a high-rise residential building in Kyiv last month. EPA
      CommentEven as Trump's focus wavers, Ukraine needs the world's support

      With talks in Turkey delivering little beyond a prisoner exchange, the conflict risks receding from people's minds

      CommentJune 05, 2025
      A mass for the late Pope Francis at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on April 21. AFP
      Pope Leo's opportunity to give hope to Middle East's war-weary Christians

      The region's Christian communities found inspiration in Pope Francis, and his successor could carry on championing their welfare

      CommentMay 09, 2025
      Relatives over the body of journalist Ahmed Mansour at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on April 8, 2025. AFP
      CommentGaza is by far the most dangerous place for journalists

      263 Palestinian journalists and aid workers have been killed since the war began on October 7, 2023

      CommentApril 16, 2025
      A member of the Syrian security forces stands guard in Homs at an event to mark the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Bashar Al Assad. The country now has an opportunity for real change. AFP
      CommentSyria’s new government is trying - but it needs help

      If the international community remains hesitant or – worse, punitive – it risks condemning the country to a prolonged cycle of instability

      CommentMarch 17, 2025
      A poster of Robert Hopkins' photograph of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin together after negotiations at the Yalta Conference in Moscow in 1945. AFP
      Despite the US-Russia summit, we needn’t return to a world like the one before 1945

      What we need is to go back to 1975, when the world came together to reaffirm the universality of human rights and international law

      OpinionFebruary 27, 2025
      A Palestinian woman holds the hand of her daughter in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Reuters
      CommentGaza’s long road ahead of healing families and society

      The hallmark of the Palestinian people is that they emerge from tragedies and survive

      CommentJanuary 30, 2025
      Gaza is reliant on aid from wealthy countries. AFP
      CommentWhy are Americans so blind to Gaza?

      It is incumbent on all of us who are able to shine a light on the darkest places

      CommentJanuary 16, 2025
      A protest in Damascus on December 27. At least 15,000 people died from torture or were killed in the government’s prisons during Syria's civil war. AFP
      CommentJustice in Syria is not only necessary, it is achievable

      I was one of those who documented war crimes committed by the Assad government. These outrages can and must be accounted for

      CommentJanuary 03, 2025
      The bodies of victims are covered with blankets following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, Gaza last month. AFP
      CommentGaza's winter, with ashes instead of blankets

      Along with food, water and medical supplies, people in North Gaza have only jackets for warmth

      CommentDecember 05, 2024
      Women voters show their support for the President-elect as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally on November 4, in Raleigh, North Carolina. AP
      CommentWhy did so many female voters turn to Trump?

      Denial about his past, reactionary attitudes and a fixation on the economy combined to ensure that America's last glass ceiling remains intact

      CommentNovember 07, 2024
      UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to 10 Downing Street on Thursday. EPA
      Europe needs to help Ukraine defend itself – with or without US support

      If the continent wants sustainable peace, it must continue to back Kyiv's war effort

      OpinionOctober 11, 2024
      Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (C-R) and his wife, Olena Zelenska, at the unveiling of the 'Memorial to the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide', to the victims of deportation carried out by Soviet authorities in 1944, in Kyiv, on September 11. EPA
      A Kyiv conference hears that the country's war is a European one – that Ukraine must win

      The greatest concern is how to support Ukraine on the battlefield

      CommentSeptember 18, 2024
      Kamala Harris's Gaza stance received a mixed response at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month. EPA
      Can Kamala Harris win back Muslim Americans?

      Her stand on the Gaza war is a step forward from Joe Biden, but doesn't go far enough

      CommentSeptember 02, 2024
      Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers being questioned for detainee abuse, on July 29. AP
      Israeli prison abuse against Palestinians is a stain on the world's conscience

      Reports coming out of Sde Teiman are just the surface of what happens behind closed doors in this war

      CommentAugust 13, 2024
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