"Women, Children, Crisis" presented by the Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting presents “Women – Children – Crisis” Monday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.

The free, public event features three journalists who will share their stories from Nepal, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Meredith May, feature writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and a professor at Mills College in Oakland, reported this winter on child indentured servants in western Nepal.

Michael Kavanagh made three month-long trips to eastern Congo over the past year, placing his reporting in The World, World Focus, NPR and Slate. He reported extensively on ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region and on the use of rape as a weapon of war.

Alaa Majeed, an Iraqi journalist who worked in McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau, is a winner of the 2007 Courage in Journalism Award. She reunited with her two sons this winter after years apart because of the war.

Come hear more about these global issues, and see stirring video documentaries from the field.

The event is sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the UNC Center for Global Initiatives, with additional support provided by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is a non-profit that supports independent international journalism by reporters around the world. The center focuses on under-reported global issues, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences especially in the United States.

Learn more at www.pulitzercenter.org.