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Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni

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Janine di Giovanni is executive director at The Reckoning Project, which documents war crimes inside Ukraine. She has been a reporter of war and conflict for more than three decades, working in more than 19 wars and witnessing three genocides, focused mainly on human rights. She is the author of nine books, and the recipient of more than a dozen journalistic and humanitarian awards. She is the former Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow at Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs and a fellow at Johns Hopkins Agora Institute. She lives in New York City and Paris and is the mother of one son.
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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
Janine di Giovanni
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
Janine di Giovanni
Vice President Kamala Harris before boarding Air Force Two to return to Washington after participating in a political event in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. AP Photo
With Harris on the ticket, there's hope for a new Middle East policy
CommentJuly 31, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
In happier times, pupils attend class in a school run by UNRWA in Gaza City. The UN says 80 per cent of schools in the territory have been destroyed or damaged. AFP
Gaza's pupils going back to school is key to lasting peace

Gaza’s educational system has been ravaged and the trauma will be felt for decades to come

CommentJuly 16, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
A US Border Patrol agent along with a K9 canine agent search for migrants attempting to enter the US, at a checkpoint, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on June 27. Reuters
The story of David Velasquez and the case for immigrants

In the face of the rising far right, in the US and Europe, we need to remember that immigrants boost the economy and change societies in several positive ways

CommentJuly 04, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
A Sudanese refugee in Chad waits with other refugees to receive a food portion from World Food Programme in Koufroun last year. Reuters
Not being one of the world's 118 million refugees is a matter of sheer luck

It is only an act of fate that we were born where we were – and not in a refugee community

CommentJune 19, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
The Palestinian flag and the flag of Hezbollah wave in the wind on a pole as UN peacekeepers patrol the border area between Lebanon and Israel. AFP
Plans for 'the day after' in Gaza should include UN peacekeepers

There is enough data to prove the effectiveness of an international mission in a post-war scenario

CommentMay 31, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
A woman holds a Palestinian flag during a rally, in Paris, on November 18, 2023. AP Photo
Gazans will remember that Europe did not help them

The EU’s lack of unity to call for Israel’s restraint could have a devastating effect on the bloc’s collective soft power in the Arab world for years to come

CommentMay 09, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
Palestinian women mourn relatives killed in an Israeli bombing in Deir El Balah in the central Gaza Strip before the burial on March 14, 2024. AFP
Why aren't more western feminists speaking up for Gaza's women?

The support being extended to the victims of the Ukraine and Palestine conflicts couldn't be more different

CommentMarch 20, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
A Muslim women prays in Visoko, Bosnia, Sunday, July 9, 2023 next to a truck carrying 30 coffins with remains of the recently identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and buried at a vast and ever-expanding memorial cemetery in Potocari, outside Srebrenica. AP Photo
The healing can only begin when wars end and justice is sought

Post-war is a particularly delicate time. When the bullets stop, the trauma does not

CommentFebruary 19, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
On the final day of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the local train is often packed with delegates, entrepreneurs and start-up CEOs returning home. AP
Curb your cynicism over Davos

In our uncertain times, the World Economic Forum remains a place where the next generation of deal makers and peace bringers meet

CommentJanuary 21, 2024
Janine di Giovanni
Afghan women at a market in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on January 23. AFP
The pain of Afghan women watching their progress vanish

Under the Taliban, gender equality doesn't exist and the imprisonment of women within the walls of their homes is near complete

CommentDecember 15, 2023
Janine di Giovanni
People mourn outside a hospital in Khan Younis following Israeli strikes in Gaza Strip earlier this week. Reuters
Despite its chequered history, transitional justice is achievable in Gaza

One particular segment of Palestinian society might just hold the key

CommentNovember 17, 2023
Janine di Giovanni
Palestinians look for survivors in the rubble of a destroyed building hit during an Israeli air strike, as an injured woman is helped in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 13. AFP
The siege and sorrow of Gaza

The humanitarian situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave is worsening and will become catastrophic once the Israeli ground invasion begins

CommentOctober 16, 2023
Janine di Giovanni
Palestinians flee after Israeli strikes in the northern and eastern Gaza Strip on Sunday. EPA
Don't paint all Palestinians with Hamas's brush

This tiny territory is full of smart, ambitious and industrious people who want to live in peace – just like the rest of the world

CommentOctober 09, 2023
Janine di Giovanni
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