Transparency is not one of oil’s properties; corruption seems to rise to its surface wherever it is found. Is oil intrinsically dirty?
This was the starting point for my presentation about the relationship between corruption and the environment, in a workshop for journalists from across Europe organised by Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and Inter [...]

Miren Gutierrez  – Kazetaria
Amaratarra zazpi urtez IPS albiste agentziako buru izan bada ere, emakumeek hedabideetan botere gutxiegi dutela uste du.
maitane aldanondo
Nazioarteko albiste agentzia batean zuen editore buru postua utzi, eta jaioterrira itzultzeko ordua zela erabaki zuen orain hilabete batzuk Miren Gutierrezek (Amara Berri, 1966). Munduko hainbat txokotako gertaeren berri ematen bi hamarkada igaro ondoren, ahal [...]

Lo más penoso ha sido la desatención de algunos ayuntamientos a las familias. Al principio, por dudas y miedos que poco a poco van desapareciendo. En algunos casos, por ideología contraria a reivindicar la memoria de los republicanos sociológicamente colocados en la izquierda.

By Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
Español
What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
In Italian, most women prefer the masculine titles, because the feminine version (when it exists) is considered ludicrous, even derogatory.

Miren Gutierrez interviews SAADIA ZAHIDI, co-author of Global Gender Gap report
ROME, Dec 3 (IPS) – “It is clear that there are huge discrepancies within Sub-Saharan Africa, but overall the region is doing extremely well in terms of political empowerment,” says Saadia Zahidi, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic [...]

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 [...]

By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – “You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,” said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. “Up to one in three women around the world has been abused [...]

There Is A Sense Of Vindication – Gender-South Africa
Miren Gutierrez* interviews THENJIWE MTINTSO, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) – Born in a squatter camp in Orlando East and raised by a single mother; working in a factory while completing secondary school by correspondence; arrested and banned by the apartheid government: South [...]

Teaching at University

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 [...]