Ilgin Yorulmaz
Ilgin Yorulmaz has reported from Turkey, India, Nepal, Philippines, China and Japan for BBC World Service, Huffington Post, Vice, The Guardian, PassBlue, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller UK, Voices and Maison Française. She has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In addition, she has an M.A. in international relations and economics from the International University of Japan in Niigata and a B.A. in business administration from Bogazici University in Istanbul. Yorulmaz speaks Turkish, Japanese, French and English.
Irene Khan’s job is hard. As the United Nations special rapporteur on protecting the right to freedom of expression, she must navigate the fine line between freedom of expression and hate speech, while also defending independent media. Khan shared with …
- Categories: Human Rights
As global development aid is being squeezed drastically, small, underdeveloped countries like Laos will have to face problems of poverty, climate change and economic dependence on their own. Surrounded by five neighbors — Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar and China — …
- Categories: SDGs, Small States
From Haiti to Sudan, from Syria to Ukraine, emails pleading for support and donations started pouring in after United States President Donald Trump stopped the operations of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Trump’s executive order on …
- Categories: Africa, Humanitarian Aid, US Foreign Relations
As the humanitarian crisis and the hostage ordeal in Gaza worsens in the seven months of war, questions are being raised about accountability and compensation for the loss of life and damage suffered by the civilians caught up in both …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Security Council, Small States
For nearly 26 years, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a politically outspoken gynecologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been running a renowned hospital in a turbulent war zone over mineral resources in the country’s east to heal thousands of …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, Women
The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Center was set up in 2011 with money from Saudi Arabia to combat terrorism worldwide. Some experts, however, now question the center’s ability to eliminate terrorist threats. There are also questions about whether the money that …
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council, Terrorism
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