Sep 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
Sep 14th, 2009
I have started to blog on women’s issues at Gender Masala. My latest comments are about Il corpo delle donne, a documentary about the manipulative, humiliating image of women in Italian television, and about how the latest version of Star Trek reproduces the utdated sexual prejudices of the sixties. I am fascinated by how media portray women. Maybe it [...]
Recently I participated in a conference at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, hosted by Bioversity International, on how to create global awareness of the value of agricultural biodiversity to people’s lives in the run up to 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. The Bellagio Center absolutely gorgeous, by the way.
In the picture I am [...]
Jul 8th, 2009
Ahora mi novela “La ciudad de las cigarras” se encuentra en Amazon. Los hechos en los que está basada esta novela fueron recogidos en una investigación del diario La Prensa de Panamá que se extendió desde 1997 hasta 2003 cuando el blanqueador Marc Harris fue arrestado en Nicaragua, transportado a Miami, juzgado y condenado a [...]
El Knight Center for Journalism, de la Universidad de Texas, recoge un artículo mío sobre en informe que está elaborando la Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los Medios (conocida como IWMF) en su blog sobre periodismo latinoamericano.
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Fundación internacional recopila informe sobre igualdad de género en la prensa mundial
La Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los [...]
Jun 25th, 2009
Sabina Zaccaro and Miren Gutierrez* interview EMILE FRISON, Bioversity International Director-General
Emile Frison
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) – The promotion of biodiversity in agriculture needs political backing, Emile Frison, Bioversity International Director-General tells IPS in an interview. This kind of biodiversity can provide food security and promote health, he says.
Bioversity International is the largest international research organisation [...]
Jun 12th, 2009
Africa IPS MDG3 Seminar – May 2009
IPS Africa brought together in Johannesburg, South Africa, senior reporters and gender organisations to review the existing editorial challenges of covering current issues from a gender perspective. I was one of the presenters talking about IPS’s Gender Wire, with which IPS wants to redress the huge imbalance that exists today in [...]
Jun 4th, 2009
Mario de Queiroz and Miren Gutierrez* interview MARIO SOARES, former Portuguese President
Mario Soares
LISBON, Jun 3 (IPS) – Global house prices are diving further, unemployment in the 16 countries using the euro increased in April to its highest level in almost ten years, and Eurozone Gross Domestic Product is expected to shrink by 1.9 percent during [...]
On Thursday 14th of May, the second annual International Street Paper Awards took place in the Logen Theatre in the beautiful city of Bergen, Norway. The awards were organised by INSP, in collaboration with Megafon, the local street paper of Bergen. The awards were the highlight of the INSP Annual Conference, and a key part of [...]
Mar 18th, 2009
Miren Gutierrez* interviews SAADIA ZAHIDI, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Saadia Zahidi.
Credit:World Economic Forum
ROME, Mar 18 (IPS) – Denying women access to political and economic power is a “strategic waste”, says Saadia Zahidi, co-author of the WEF’s Global Gender Gap (GGG) report in a telephone interview [...]
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.