Our Mission

 

The Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence works with independent journalists, media outlets and Schools of Journalism to strengthen reporting on gender-based violence, reduce its prevalence globally, and advocate for women journalists under threat --- particularly those from marginalized communities, and those under attack for reporting on gender-based violence.

The Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence is run by Rutgers University's Institute for Women's Leadership.

 

Team

 

Cathy Otten is an award-winning journalist and author of With Ash On Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (OR books 2017). The Los Angeles Review of Books described With Ash on Their Faces as: "The best kind of humanist journalism: lucid, transparent, grimly realistic.… (N)o book has covered it better.” Cathy worked as a reporter in the UK for the Big Issue in the North and as a correspondent in Iraq for the Independent and others. She has written for the Guardian, Foreign Policy, New Yorker, the Atlantic, American Scholar, and many more. Cathy runs the Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence as a Visiting Global Associate at Rutgers University's Institute for Women's leadership.

 

Global Advisory Group

 

Our advisory group includes lawyers, journalists, editors, scholars, activists, and communications experts from the US, Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe.

 

Partner Organizations

 

DART CENTER

UNFPA

THE GUARDIAN FOUNDATION

THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER

MEDIA ADVOCACY GROUP

ASIAN COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM