Dr Eunice Apio shortlisted for 2022 Women Building Peace Award
Congratulations to Dr Eunice Apio, long-time partner of CHIBOW, who was shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 WOMEN BUILDING PEACE award of the United States Institute of Peace. International organizations and the U.S. government, in the past years, have increasingly recognized the importance of gender equality in creating sustainable peace. The United States Institute of Peace has long recognised the contribution of women to peacebuilding, and has long been engaged in support
The Journalist Award for Commitment to Children's Rights
This year’s Peter Scholl - Latour Prize, conferred to a journalist for courageous and independent reporting on the suffering of people in crisis and conflict areas, was received by Sonja Ernst for her radio contribution about children conceived in war rapes. The programme (in German) can be heard here. Jury member Charlotte Maihoff, moderator of the news program RTL aktuell commented on Sonja Ernst’s report “Children from war rapes” as being ‘a very special piece of radio. Th
GRACE Uganda wins a Rights for Time Grant for Impact Research Project
Congratulations to CHIBOW collaborator Dr Eunice Otuko Apio, who led a team consisting of network coordinator, Sabine Lee (University of Birmingham), and other long-standing collaborators Dheeraj Akolkar (Vardo Films), Babra Otuku (Global Reconciliation Advocacy Community Engagement - Grace Uganda) and Toneva Peace (Psychologist - Grace Uganda) to win a Rights for Time (https://www.rights4time.com/) grant for an impact research project, ‘Film-in Participatory Action Learning
Peacekeeper SEA and Fatherless Children: Dr Kirstin Wagner for The Conversation
Dr Kirstin Wagner, a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and member of the Peacekeeper Perpetrated Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PPSEA) project has published an article in The Conversation: Sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers in DRC: fatherless children speak for first time about the pain of being abandoned. This article is based on findings collected by the PPSEA research group, which conducted 2,858 interviews with people from Congolese communities in 2018.
