Backpack Journalist http://backpackjournalist.org International Freelance Reporting Fri, 27 May 2011 17:57:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sanctuary http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/05/27/sanctuary/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/05/27/sanctuary/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 17:56:12 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=194 Anna Sussman reports on how Liberia’s civil war forced a teenage boy to choose between taking up arms, and leaving his country behind.

Listen to Sanctuary on NPR’s Snap Judgment.

 

 

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/05/27/sanctuary/feed/ 0 Child Soldiers–Not Just for Africa http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/04/20/child-soldiers-not-just-for-africa/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/04/20/child-soldiers-not-just-for-africa/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:39:14 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=190 Why do armies recruit children? Shane O’Doherty looks back on his years as a child soldier for the IRA and explains.

Anna Sussman reports for NPR’s Snap Judgment

Babyface Bomber

 

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]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/01/18/on-the-mend/feed/ 0 Left for Dead http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/01/18/left-for-dead/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/01/18/left-for-dead/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:20:17 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=177 What do you do when wake up in a shallow grave, alone, in the middle of the outback? Have a listen…. Buried Alive

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2011/01/18/left-for-dead/feed/ 0 16 Years to Life http://backpackjournalist.org/2010/11/15/16-years-to-life/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2010/11/15/16-years-to-life/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:28:29 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=174 Brenda Clubine  spent 26 years in a California prison for killing her abusive husband. But in prison she realized she had a higher calling to save the lives of hundreds of women.

Sixteen-to-Life

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2010/11/15/16-years-to-life/feed/ 0 Six months in Liberia http://backpackjournalist.org/2010/11/15/six-months-in-liberia/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2010/11/15/six-months-in-liberia/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:25:07 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=172 For the last six months the Backpack Journalists have been in Liberia, training rural radio journalists in human rights reporting, so hopefully the backpackjournalist.org model can be replicated.

Apologies for the lack reporting, too busy training!

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The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in L.A.

UN Official looks at US housing crisis

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/11/07/un-official-looks-at-us-housing-crisis/feed/ 0 US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:39:11 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=155 The US has donated some $200 million in military aid to re-train and re-arm Liberia’s military. While some say the notoriously criminal army needed the professional training, others are worried given the violent consequences US military aid to the country in the past. Anna Sussman reports for PRI’s The World. Liberia’s Military.

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/10/us-military-aid-to-liberia-cause-for-concern/feed/ 0 Conscripted by Poverty http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/09/conscripted-by-poverty/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/09/conscripted-by-poverty/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:06:45 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=159 Anna Sussman’s article on the economics of the child soldier epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears in the new text book by Dollars and Sense: Real World Labor.
“Real World Labor provides up–to–date, accessible, and penetrating analysis of the most significant theoretical, historical, and practical issues confronting labor unions and workers on a national and global level. This collection includes 70 authoritative essays by leading writers and scholars of the labor movement.”

]]> http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/08/09/conscripted-by-poverty/feed/ 0 Women End Wars http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/03/15/147/ http://backpackjournalist.org/2009/03/15/147/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:20:59 +0000 anna http://backpackjournalist.org/?p=147 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's First Elected Female Head of State

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's First Elected Female Head of State

Anna Sussman writes on the global movement for more female peace negotiators.

Liberia Stresses Need for Female Peacemakers

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