Johanna Higgs
Johanna Higgs is from Perth, Australia. She is working on her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from La Trobe University in Melbourne and is the director of Project MonMa, a nonprofit group focused on improving women's lives. She has an undergraduate degree in anthropology and politics from James Cook University in Queensland, and a master's degree in international development from Deakin University in Victoria. She speaks English and Spanish.
- Johanna Higgs
- • February 13, 2019
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ISHKASHIM, Afghanistan — I entered the country from the northeast, from Tajikistan, where I had been traveling for a month, researching the lives of women, as I have been doing across the world for years. From the small town…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • October 23, 2018
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KAMPOT, Cambodia — Chan Kanha is the deputy mayor for the Cambodian People’s Party in this small port town, which sits along Cambodia’s southern coast and still retains much of its French colonial architecture. The Cambodian People’s Party, or…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • April 20, 2018
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ZAHEDAN, Iran — “They give all of the rights to men,” said Neda, a young woman living in Zahedan, a border city near Afghanistan and Pakistan, who did not want to reveal her last name. “You can never make…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • December 5, 2017
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LIOUSHUI, China — Known as the Kingdom of Women, the Mosuo are a small ethnic minority group living in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, predominantly around Lugu Lake. The Mosuo have become somewhat famous for their matriarchal society, where the…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • June 22, 2017
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SUKHUMI, Abkhazia — Here in the Caucasus region, hugging the Black Sea, this is what the capital of the small breakaway territory of Abkhazia looks like, more than 20 years after severing from Georgia: a city in tatters with…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • February 15, 2017
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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — “The officials here in Mauritania will tell you the opposite of what victims will tell you, which is that there is no slavery in Mauritania,” said Brahim Bilal Ramdhane, who lives in this West African capital…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • December 28, 2016
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo — On the outskirts of the capital here, it is dark and loud in a makeshift bar as Congolese music blares across the room. When we ask two patrons if children are there, they point…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty
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- Johanna Higgs
- • July 9, 2016
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ERBIL, Iraq — Despite the war crimes being committed against women and girls in northern Iraq since the extremist group ISIS invaded two years ago, rejection of entrenched violence and discrimination against females may be taking root among pockets…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Terrorism, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • January 24, 2016
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BUENOS AIRES — Like many countries, Argentina is considered a source, transit and destination nation for the trafficking of men, women and girls, according to the United States State Department. Female victims and children are brought to the country…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • November 27, 2015
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BUENAVENTURA, Colombia — Described as Colombia’s horror capital, this costal city is a denizen of drug trafficking, gang violence and turf wars primarily between right-wing paramilitary networks and leftist rebels. Soldiers patrol the streets as part of the government’s…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Latin America, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • August 31, 2015
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MEDELLIN, Colombia — “There is conflict in every single country in the world,” a 16-year-old former combatant from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, rebel group said at a rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers here in…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • July 9, 2015
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TUNIS — Tunisia has possessed the rare reputation of being progressive in gender equality in the Middle East-North African region. Yet with the rise of an Islamist political party in Tunisia after its relatively placid revolution in 2011, the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East, Women
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- Johanna Higgs
- • March 5, 2015
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NEAR TINDOUF, Algeria — Our goal was to understand the dynamics of women who live in the refugee camps here in the Sahara Desert, where tens of thousands of Sahrawi people reside in tents and mud-brick buildings, having fled…
- Categories: Africa, Refugees, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
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