From 16 to 19 November, I organised a seminar about investigative environmental journalism in Albania for professional journalists working the environment and development beats. Albania is a small country facing hard environmental and development challenges and contradictions, as it tries to overcome its Communist past and be part of the European Union. This program aimed [...]
Teaching at University
Nov 25th, 2009
As in previous years, I was invited to teach at University of Navarra as Guest Professor last month. As part of the International Media Programme, I spoke about the crisis in the media sector, the coverage of the war in Iraq, propaganda and gender. The International Media Programme is part of a one academic year [...]
Miren Gutierrez* interviews LOUISE DOUGHTY, novelist and critic
Louise Doughty signing her book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008.
Credit:Tim Duncan
ROME, Nov 25 (IPS) – The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009. Only 10 of those winners were women. Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has [...]
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Miren Gutierrez* interviews INES ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
Security Council debates protection of civilians – and women – in armed conflict.
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) – CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.On its 30th anniversary, just seven [...]
Miren Gutierrez* interviews INES ALBERDI, executive director of UNIFEM
Ines Alberdi: “CEDAW is the means by which governments (can) advance gender equality”
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Nov 15 (IPS) – The fight for women’s rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Ines Alberdi, executive director [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Plenty On the Plate – Part 2
Oct 5th, 2009
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
An internally displaced person in Congo carries rations distributed by the World Food Programme.
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Oct 4 (IPS) – “From a current 6.5 billion population, a billion don’t get enough to eat right now. Extrapolate that to 2020, and you begin to recognise why this is not just a moral problem, [...]
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
A farmer harvests sorghum seeds in Sudan. The price of the seeds has doubled over the last two years.
Credit:U.N.
ROME, Oct 3 (IPS) – It was once true that all roads led to this ancient capital. Today it is the furrows of maize, wheat and rice fields that take you to [...]
POLITICS-ITALY: Don’t Even Speak of Equality! – Part 2
Sep 22nd, 2009
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
The prevailing machismo in politics discourages women’s involvement
Credit:Italian government
ROME, Sep 22 (IPS) – Angelica Mucchi-Faina, psychology professor at the Perugia University, thinks that “in Italy you cannot even talk about equal opportunities for women in politics.”
However, Italy signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [...]
By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
Luisa Capelli: Italian feminism “has been marginalised”
Credit:Oriana Boselli/IPS
ROME, Sep 22 (IPS) – Four ministers out of 21; 193 parliamentarians out of 952 (upper and lower houses); no party leaders. Why are there so few women in Italian politics?“The feminist movement in Italy has been strong… But in order for women [...]
About the author
From 1990 until 1996, Miren Gutiérrez was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. She then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. Miren coordinated or edited investigative business stories. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. She covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. She joined IPS as Editor in chief in January 2003. She published her first novel in 2007.
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