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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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Then Vice President Joe Biden dances with his wife Jill at the Commander In Chief Ball on inauguration night in Washington, in 2009. AP
Biden's America will be a more hopeful America

Many Americans are euphoric from his win but on the flip side, what the President-elect will inherit is terrifying

CommentNovember 10, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
A supporter of former vice president Joe Biden, left, shouts defamatory slurs at supporters of President Donald Trump. AP Photo
Roots of a dirty 2020 campaign stretch deep into US history

It has been a long, bitter and deeply unpleasant campaign

CommentOctober 31, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Shamsia Hassani''s art on a Kabul wall. Musical instruments are a common theme in her work, which signify women's need to use tools other than their voices to be heard. Courtesy of Shamsia Hassani
What we don't get about women in politics and war

Conflict reporting often distorts the nature of female influence in peace and security

CommentOctober 26, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
A scene from the documentary Lenox Hill, based on the hospital of the same name in New York City. Courtesy of Netflix
My son and I were lucky to access the best of US health care

'My respect and gratitude for patching up my broken son was huge. But it was these emergency doctors and nurses who were heroes to me'

CommentOctober 20, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators pursue counter-protesters after a pro-Trump caravan rally at the Oregon State Capitol building on September 7, 2020. Getty Images / AFP
Is America on the brink of civil war?

The country is plagued by economic disparity, nationalism, extremist groups on both sides, a dire economy and the shadow of Covid-19

The AmericasOctober 20, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
A handout image made available by the White House showing US President Donald Trump working in a conference room while receiving treatment after testing positive for Covid-19. EPA
This is America, a dystopian city on a hill

The US will bounce back, but we have a dreadful year and an extraordinary election to get through first

CommentOctober 20, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Doug Hassebroek eats breakfast while on a video conference call working from home in Brooklyn, New York City, on April 24. Caitlin Ochs / Reuters
What is the future of work from a kitchen table?

A study says the future of work essentially boils down to entitlement and inequality

CommentOctober 20, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are joint winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. EPA
Will the 2020 Nobel Prize winners draw more women to science?

Charpentier and Doudna, this year's recipients, are exceptions rather than the rule

CommentOctober 20, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
A teenage girl prays during a rally in support of US President Donald Trump in Clackamas, Oregon, on August 29, 2020. AP
Will America’s Evangelicals keep faith with Donald Trump?

The US president has delivered on the expectations of Christian voters, in his policies if not in his personal life

The AmericasSeptember 07, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Florida teachers' unions are against their members returning to school. A car parade protest in Land O' Lakes, Florida, US on July 21. Octavio Jones/ Reuters
'I am a teacher and I am going back'

With my first class starting on September 4, I’ve spent two hours a day practising speaking with a mask on

CommentAugust 24, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
2C2H813 Gloria Steinem speaking at the Boston Chapter of 9 to 5 in Boston, 1982. Image shot 1982. Exact date unknown.
What 'Mrs America' gets so hopelessly wrong

Unlike in the show 'Mrs America', the second wave feminist movement was not about women pitted against one another

CommentAugust 17, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
A Palestinian girl covers her head with a scarf in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2020. / AFP / MOHAMMED ABED
Why is the world unable to see Gaza's true potential?

Living under permanent siege, Gazans have had to innovate to survive - yet their suffering has no end in sight

CommentJuly 26, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Bosnian Muslim woman Ramiza Gurdic (R), 67, survivor of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, lost her husband and two underage sons in the Srebrenica genocide. AFP
Remembering Srebrenica 25 years on

Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered in Bosnia between July 9-12, 1995

CommentJuly 09, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
Syria's chief negotiator Bashar Al Jaafari attends the plenary session of peace talks brokered by Iran, Russia and Turkey in Astana in November 2018. AFP
How we can end conflict in Syria and beyond

Track 2 diplomacy holds the key to lasting peace in the 21st century

CommentJuly 02, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
An Emergency Medical Technician dons personal protective equipment before going into Elmhurst Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Queens, New York, US, April 20. Lucas Jackson/ Reuters
Coronavirus has made me an American 'medical refugee' in France

Inequality in healthcare access in the US is particularly stark. I am luckier than most Americans

CommentJune 14, 2020
Janine di Giovanni
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