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Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni

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Janine di Giovanni is executive director at The Reckoning Project, which documents war crimes inside Ukraine. She has been a reporter of war and conflict for more than three decades, working in more than 19 wars and witnessing three genocides, focused mainly on human rights. She is the author of nine books, and the recipient of more than a dozen journalistic and humanitarian awards. She is the former Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow at Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs and a fellow at Johns Hopkins Agora Institute. She lives in New York City and Paris and is the mother of one son.
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Ukrainian rescuers working at the site where a drone hit a high-rise residential building in Kyiv last month. EPA
Even as Trump's focus wavers, Ukraine needs the world's support

With talks in Turkey delivering little beyond a prisoner exchange, the conflict risks receding from people's minds

June 05, 2025
A mass for the late Pope Francis at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on April 21. AFP
Pope Leo's opportunity to give hope to Middle East's war-weary Christians

The region's Christian communities found inspiration in Pope Francis, and his successor could carry on championing their welfare

May 09, 2025
Relatives over the body of journalist Ahmed Mansour at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on April 8, 2025. AFP
Gaza is by far the most dangerous place for journalists

263 Palestinian journalists and aid workers have been killed since the war began on October 7, 2023

April 16, 2025
A member of the Syrian security forces stands guard in Homs at an event to mark the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Bashar Al Assad. The country now has an opportunity for real change. AFP
Syria’s new government is trying - but it needs help

If the international community remains hesitant or – worse, punitive – it risks condemning the country to a prolonged cycle of instability

March 17, 2025
A poster of Robert Hopkins' photograph of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin together after negotiations at the Yalta Conference in Moscow in 1945. AFP
Despite the US-Russia summit, we needn’t return to a world like the one before 1945

What we need is to go back to 1975, when the world came together to reaffirm the universality of human rights and international law

February 27, 2025
A Palestinian woman holds the hand of her daughter in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Reuters
Gaza’s long road ahead of healing families and society

The hallmark of the Palestinian people is that they emerge from tragedies and survive

January 30, 2025
Gaza is reliant on aid from wealthy countries. AFP
Why are Americans so blind to Gaza?

It is incumbent on all of us who are able to shine a light on the darkest places

January 16, 2025
A protest in Damascus on December 27. At least 15,000 people died from torture or were killed in the government’s prisons during Syria's civil war. AFP
Justice in Syria is not only necessary, it is achievable

I was one of those who documented war crimes committed by the Assad government. These outrages can and must be accounted for

January 03, 2025
The bodies of victims are covered with blankets following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, Gaza last month. AFP
Gaza's winter, with ashes instead of blankets

Along with food, water and medical supplies, people in North Gaza have only jackets for warmth

December 05, 2024
Women voters show their support for the President-elect as he arrives to speak during a campaign rally on November 4, in Raleigh, North Carolina. AP
Why did so many female voters turn to Trump?

Denial about his past, reactionary attitudes and a fixation on the economy combined to ensure that America's last glass ceiling remains intact

November 07, 2024
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to 10 Downing Street on Thursday. EPA
Europe needs to help Ukraine defend itself – with or without US support

If the continent wants sustainable peace, it must continue to back Kyiv's war effort

October 11, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (C-R) and his wife, Olena Zelenska, at the unveiling of the 'Memorial to the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide', to the victims of deportation carried out by Soviet authorities in 1944, in Kyiv, on September 11. EPA
A Kyiv conference hears that the country's war is a European one – that Ukraine must win

The greatest concern is how to support Ukraine on the battlefield

September 18, 2024
Kamala Harris's Gaza stance received a mixed response at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month. EPA
Can Kamala Harris win back Muslim Americans?

Her stand on the Gaza war is a step forward from Joe Biden, but doesn't go far enough

September 02, 2024
Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers being questioned for detainee abuse, on July 29. AP
Israeli prison abuse against Palestinians is a stain on the world's conscience

Reports coming out of Sde Teiman are just the surface of what happens behind closed doors in this war

August 13, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris before boarding Air Force Two to return to Washington after participating in a political event in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. AP Photo
With Harris on the ticket, there's hope for a new Middle East policy
July 31, 2024

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