Ukrainian first lady and others at Georgetown, by Tanya Tkachenko, cropped

October 12, 2023

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Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska at center, in a September visit to Georgetown University. At left is Melanne Vervee, executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and at right, Georgetown President John DeGioia. (Tanya Tkachenko/YJI)

YJI students who reported ‘No one is safe’ share...

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by Sreehitha Gandluri, Emily Fromant, Purnima Priyadarsini, Norah Springborn, Amy Goodman, Chuying Huo, Lina Köksal, Manar Lezaar, Ana Fadul, Bilge Güven, Regina López, Holly Hostettler-Davies, Viktorie Goldmannová, Chinalurumogu Eze, Annalena Stache, Matty Ennis, Daisy Wigg, Thet, Burak Sanel, Parnian Shahsavary

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Norah Springborn is a Senior Reporter with Youth Journalism International. Student reporters who...

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Meeting Václav Havel in Prague

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Karlštejn, CZECHIA – Almost every Czech has heard about this place at least once during history...

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"Vaclav Havel’s lifelong dedication to upholding human rights and democracy mirrors the challenges most intellectuals in my home country of Bangladesh face today, and this is what resonated with me the most as a student journalist," wrote Usraat Fahmidah, a Senior Reporter at YJI from Dhaka, Bangladesh. A voracious reader, she came to Prague expecting to swoon over Kafka (and she definitely did) but never dreamed she'd fall for write Vaclav Havel. Read her piece on the YJI website to find out why and how she made the connection from Havel's fight for human rights and democracy in Prague decades ago to the struggle facing her own nation now. At YJI's Global Conference in Prague, democracy was a recurring theme. ... See MoreSee Less

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She is one of two women issued a Gold Educator Award by a French nonprofit for her work in educating young people around the world in journalism.

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