Elizabeth Walsh

Elizabeth Walsh is a journalist covering international politics and women's rights. She has a master's degree in international affairs from Sciences Po and a bachelor's degree in literature and gender studies from the University of Virginia. She speaks English and French. https://www.elizgwalsh.com/

TOPIC: WOMEN

At Sciences Po in France, a Lack of Gender Studies Rankles Some Students

Elizabeth Walsh

• January 25, 2018

PARIS — Women outnumber men in international affairs graduate programs across the world and are increasingly demanding that curriculums reflect feminist thinking and include gender mainstreaming. Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York, Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs and the London School of Economics are three of …

Women

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Afghan Women Write New Narratives About Themselves, With Courage

Elizabeth Walsh

• October 24, 2017

Throughout the world, Afghan women are often portrayed as victims by the media and other institutions, needing foreign rescue or summoning deep pity for their oppression. Women’s literacy rate is less than half that of men’s in the country, and it remains one of the worst places in the world for a girl to …

Asia, Gender Violence, Journalists, Women

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Syrian Refugees Get Help to Run Their Own Business, but It’s Not Easy

Elizabeth Walsh

• September 4, 2017

TAANAYEL, Lebanon — Taanayel is nestled in Lebanon’s picturesque Bekaa Valley, and on a hot summer day in a feebly air-conditioned room, 35 Syrian female refugees gathered at a center shared by numerous local nongovernmental organizations. They arrived that morning by bus from Salaam wa Makhaba, a refugee camp nearby. The women are here to …

Refugees, Syria, Women

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BOOKS

Surviving a Sea That Stole Almost Everything: One Refugee’s Story

Elizabeth Walsh

• March 4, 2017

“I represent just one voice among the millions who risk their lives every day in order to live a life of dignity,” writes Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian woman who survived a horrific journey across the Mediterranean. “Every family in my country has lost so much that they have had to rebuild their …

BOOKS, Refugees

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TOPIC: WOMEN

This Entrepreneur Shows Kenyans That Women Can Prosper in Business

Elizabeth Walsh

• November 16, 2016

Jennifer Riria, the chief executive of Kenya’s largest microfinance institution, grew up in a village at the top of Mount Kenya, the second-tallest mountain in Africa. Her birth was cause for disappointment: the fourth of her parents’ daughters. Her father abused her mother, and she grew up watching women carry firewood, water, food and …