Posts Tagged ‘monrovia’
Media training dollars run amok?
Thanks to @penelopeinparis for highlighting this great opinion piece from Tom Kamara, editor and publisher of Liberia’s New Democrat newspaper. Kamara questions the utility of the media training donors seem so eager to pour money into. He makes some good points: “Journalism is a profession requiring training and skills development. It takes years, not days [...]
Liberia’s “Rape Court”: Progress for women and girls delayed?
Last year, I reported with the intrepid Glenna Gordon a story about Liberia’s Court E, a court chamber in the capital city of Monrovia dedicated only to rape cases. The court, which will turn two in Februrary, was a direct response to what many people we met called a rape “epidemic” in Liberia. The country’s [...]
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