Fellows & Editors
Juhie Bhatia
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2012
- Affiliation:
- Women's eNews
- Country:
- Morocco
- Year:
- 2012
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Juhie Bhatia is the managing editor of Women's eNews, an online news service that covers women's issues, and the public health editor of Global Voices Online, which leverages the power of citizens' media. She has covered health, science and women's issues for over 10 years as a reporter and editor. In 2011 in collaboration with Global Voices Online and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, she wrote a series on global food security issues. In 2006, Bhatia helped launch EverydayHealth.com, one of the leading health web sites in the U.S., and was previously a nutrition consultant for the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Nutrition Action Healthletter. She has written for Reuters Health, Planned Parenthood's teenwire.com, Bust magazine, HealthDay, Bulletin for the World Health Organization, iVillage and Natural Health magazine, among others. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and has a bachelor's degree in nutritional science from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Bhatia was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Liberia in 2010.
Stories
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Abortion Ship to Dock in Morocco to Publicize Safety
An "abortion ship" was set to arrive in Smir today, its first time in a Muslim country, to kick off a campaign to promote safe medication for abortions in a country where...
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Rougher Road Ahead for Morocco’s Maternal Health
Aicha Sasbou, who has worked for 30 years as a traditional birth attendant in this remote region of the Atlas Mountains, clearly remembers her first delivery. She was called along with her aunt...
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Moroccan Moms Benefit from Maternal Health Revolution
Sookaina Boudraa had been waiting for three hours at the Alwaha health clinic in Sidi Moumen, an area in northeastern Casablanca known for its slums. {image-1} Seven months pregnant, she sat patiently,...
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Young Moroccans Keep Arab-Spring Spirit Alive
The youth-led Feb. 20 Movement in Morocco has simmered down to a core group that includes many female activists. They're keeping an eye on constitutional reforms enacted last year that some say...
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Moroccan Suicide Focuses Legal Trackers on Rape
Moroccan activists met in Fez last week to learn how to use an online database of women's rights court decisions. They hope it will help propel reforms that were too late...
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Outrage, Protest Follow 16-Year-Old Moroccan’s Suicide
Moroccan activists have stepped up pressure to a scrap a law that allows rapists to marry their victims after a 16 year old killed herself. Amina Filali drank rat poison on March 10 in...
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Liberia Innovates to Save Lives of New Moms
A small group of reporters huddled around Roseline Broh, a nurse midwife supervisor, at the entrance to the labor ward at Redemption Hospital here. The facility provides free services and some of...
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Liberian Radio Station Gives Women the Controls
Christiana Garpeh listened attentively with her headphones as she put together her first radio piece of the day. She ignored the Beyonce song playing in the newsroom to focus on transcribing an...
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