Fellows & Editors
Jill Filipovic
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2015
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Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York City. Her work on law, politics, gender and foreign affairs has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, New York Magazine, the Nation, Foreign Policy, GOOD magazine, Marie Claire, the Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, and others. She was an editor at NYU Law's Journal of Law and Social Change, and a contributor to the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. A winner of a 2014 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for her global health reporting, she was also a 2013 UN Foundation Fellow in Malawi.
Filipovic was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Brazil in 2014.
Stories
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The Unintended Consequences of India’s War on Sex Selection
Many poor women now find that they can’t access second-trimester abortions at all. The policy’s implementation raises a crucial question: “Can you promote the rights of women...
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What Abortions in India Can Teach Us About American Women’s Health
Last fall—before the Center for Medical Progress released its video attack on Planned Parenthood, before Cecile Richards testified before Congress, before Congress voted to defund the health care organization&mdash...
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How 3 Simple Words Are Changing an Indian Town
Shyam Sundar Paliwal is a tree hugger. He pets trees as he walks by them. He points out the ones for which he holds particular affection. Ask him for a photo and...
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Why IUD Access in India Falls Short
Shilpi, 25, has two young daughters and wants to wait at least five years before she tries for a son. She uses birth control pills, which she gets alternately from her accredited social...
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Are These Women the Key to Safer Abortions in India?
Geeta doesn't remember exactly where it was that a girl she knew threw away her baby. She's also not sure if the mother of a childhood friend went to jail...
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How Vaccine Denialism in the West Is Causing Measles Outbreaks in Brazil
Earlier this month, Jenny McCarthy, the anti-vaccine movement's loudest proponent, disavowed her earlier arguments. Instead, she claimed that she never told anyone not to vaccinate their children and...
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To Get an Abortion in Brazil, I Had to Lie and Say I Was Raped
{image-1} Though more than a million abortions are performed in Brazil every year, almost all of them are illegal. Some are performed in illicit clinics by practitioners of varying skills, and...
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Inside a War on Natural Birth: C-Sections as Status Symbol and ‘Choice’ as a Myth
Adelir Carmen Lemos de Goés just wanted a natural birth. {image-1} Already a 29-year-old mother of two, she had a trained attendant assisting her; she had a healthy pregnancy. Adelir...
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