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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 bodies of four people who died during the Russian occupation await burial during funerals in Bucha, Ukraine, last month. AP Photo
      Prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine is an international victory

      Modern approaches and lessons from the past mean that those who break the rules of war might be held historically accountable

      CommentJune 01, 2022
      People gather at Grand Central Station for a rally in New York City last month. AFP
      Little Ukraine and the solidarity of a diaspora in New York

      Wandering down Second Avenue, the strength of a community is evident

      CommentApril 20, 2022
      A couple survey the devastation of their neighbourhood near Sarajevo airport, where intense shelling and fighting had reduced nearly every house to rubble, in April 1996, in Sarajevo. Tom Stoddart Archive
      Bosnians have something to say to Ukraine about life after a siege

      There may be darker days ahead for Ukraine but a message from Sarajevo speaks of hope

      CommentApril 07, 2022
      Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, US journalist Trey Yingst and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova reporting in Ukraine. Fox News / AFP
      Journalists covering the Ukraine war are 'white flags'

      Warring parties should respect the presence of reporters on the field

      CommentMarch 21, 2022
      Two students from Eswatini comfort each other after they managed to cross from Ukraine into Romania, on February 27, 2022. EPA
      Ukraine exposes once again the dangerous notion of 'good v bad refugees'

      Everyone fleeing Ukraine has an urgent reason to do so, regardless of their race

      CommentMarch 04, 2022
      An ambulance travels towards a checkpoint set up by the army on the road between Bakhmut and Luhanske, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine. AP
      A war in Ukraine could spark Europe's next big refugee crisis

      The continent already has a problem dealing with those fleeing war, and it may be about to get worse

      CommentFebruary 14, 2022
      US President Joe Biden pauses as he listens to a question about the bombings at the Kabul airport in August in Washington. AP Photo
      Biden is no A+ student but he's still America's best bet

      I've given the US President a better grade for his first year in office than many of my compatriots have

      CommentJanuary 19, 2022
      Elizabeth Holmes, centre, at the federal court in San Jose, California, on January 3. AP
      The Elizabeth Holmes verdict and America's justice system

      Compare the cases of Anthony Broadwater with those of two white American women

      CommentDecember 26, 2021
      Fighter jets fly past a church in Croatia. AFP
      Western reticence is endangering Bosnia and the Balkans

      A shaky peace deal drawn up decades ago is on the brink of collapse

      CommentNovember 28, 2021
      A man paddles his boat at the Chebayesh marsh, Dhi Qar province, Iraq, August 13. Reuters
      Why is it so hot in the Middle East?

      The link between climate change and future conflicts is especially worrying

      CommentNovember 07, 2021
      The destroyed edifice of the Church of St Mary Al Tahira in Qaraqosh on Iraq's Nineveh plain, on December 27, 2016. The offensive to retake the Iraqi city from ISIL began in mid-October. Shortly afterwards, Iraqi forces and local militias drove out ISIL from Qaraqosh, 10 miles east of Mosul. Getty
      Christians in Iraq and the Middle East must keep faith

      Despite dwindling community numbers, as churches and villages are being rebuilt, there is hope

      CommentOctober 14, 2021
      "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina in the pink inmate's uniform arrives from the Nyarugenge prison with Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) officers at the Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 25, 2020. He was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison on terror charges. AFP
      Rwanda's battle for the soul

      The conviction of Paul Rusesabagina on terror charges has divided Rwandans

      CommentSeptember 28, 2021
      Pedestrians and police run as a tower of the World Trade Center collapses, after two planes crashed into the complex destroying New York's mighty twin towers September 11, 2001. Loss of life is expected to be catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers where some 50,000 people work. Reuters CLH/
      After 9/11, America was no longer invincible

      The date lit off a series of attacks and emboldened terrorist groups around the world

      CommentSeptember 10, 2021
      An Afghan girl leans against the wall of the mud house shared by three families who fled fighting between the Taliban and the government in Kandahar province. The house is in the province’s Zhari district, January 2021. Charlie Faulkner for The National
      Afghanistan will go back to how it was when I went there in 2001

      Don't be fooled by Taliban 2.0. It will roll back all the progress the country made over the past 20 years

      CommentAugust 20, 2021
      An elderly patient receives a dose of the Pfizer vaccine, at a clinic at Orange Farm, near Johannesburg. AP
      A message for the anti vaxxers in the US

      It’s really quite simple: get the jab

      CommentAugust 08, 2021
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