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 [...]
Media: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women
Nov 27th, 2009
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 [...]
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.
Categories
- Articles by IPS (44)
- Blogroll (2)
- Conferences and Seminars (12)
- General (28)
- Interviews by the Author (33)
- Interviews with the author (6)
- La Ciudad de las Cigarras (13)
- New links (1)
- New links (21)
- Uncategorized (1)
Meta