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/
- Elizabeth Walsh
- • January 25, 2018
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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…
- Categories: Women
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- Elizabeth Walsh
- • October 24, 2017
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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,…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Journalists, Women
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- Elizabeth Walsh
- • September 4, 2017
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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…
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- Elizabeth Walsh
- • March 4, 2017
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“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…
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- Elizabeth Walsh
- • November 16, 2016
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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…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Women