2 posts and columns on Bosnia

What’s the Good News at the New York Times?

in Media on March 1, 2010 at 11:19 am PT

Things have gotten less bad for the paper, but nothing dramatically good. So why are investors bidding up the publisher’s shares today? Shrug or make something up.

Eve Ensler Calls for Rape-Free Cellphones

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 12:19 pm PT

On May 13, 2009, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing called “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones.” Its purpose: to end the use of rape-as-a-weapon-of-war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo–a place where 1,100 women a month are raped, in part as a consequence of the region’s coltan trade. Coltan, or columbite tantalite, is a mineral essential to the manufacture of a wide array of consumer electronics–cellphones, laptops. Among those who testified, Eve Ensler, playwright of “The Vagina Monologues” and the founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls–and a speaker at D7.
Eve Ensler at D7