Watching Burma: Dispatches from a Turbulent Election Season

Watching Burma: Dispatches from a Turbulent Election Season

BY STEPHANIE GUYER-STEVENS. PHOTO BY MALIA GUYER-STEVENS “Watching Burma: Dispatches from a Turbulent Election” was a month-long reporting project on the November, 2010 elections in Burma, produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens and Lu Olkowski. Our focus was...
The Burmese Elections on The Hidden World of Girls

The Burmese Elections on The Hidden World of Girls

Radio producers Stephanie Guyer-Stevens and Lu Olkowski are covering the election in Burma from the vantage point of several Karen women in Thailand, who are anxiously awaiting election results in their home country. Guyer-Stevens has reported from the Thai/Burma before; her Outer Voices story Kawthoolei, demystifies the complicated history of Burma’s ethnic groups, while focusing on Karen women activists working for non-violent solutions. Olkowski is producer of Women of Troy and other radio stories that have been heard on All Things Considered, Day to Day, Radiolab, Studio 360, This American Life and Weekend America.

Mu Sochua

Mu Sochua

In 2008, Cambodian Member of Parliament Mu Sochua was embroiled in a court battle with Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia. Hun Sen threatened to strip Mu Sochua of parliamentary immunity, which could have made it possible to imprison her. Mu Sochua, one of the world’s foremost defenders of women’s and human rights, would have lost her crucial voice for the women and the poorest of the poor in Cambodia.

Radio Communities: The Other Side of The Electronic Divide

Radio Communities: The Other Side of The Electronic Divide

Photo: Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project Using radio to create community, creating community radio. Why expect radio to do this? It’s malleable, anonymous, inexpensive to build, easy to transmit and receive, relatively speaking, even when the simple act of owning...
Choosing Uncertainty

Choosing Uncertainty

BY CATHERINE BARAONG / THAILAND PHOTOGRAPHED BY KRISTOFER DAN-BERGMAN Young Karen women head back to their homes in the camps.The sun shines down fiercely in Tak province. I’m on a rented bicycle peddling hard and trying to keep from going blind from the afternoon...

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