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A Post reporter shares her perspective on hazards for female journalists abroad
As a 28-year-old reporter about to cover Africa in 2002, I was sent to rural Virginia to attend hostile-environment training, where former British Royal Marines taught journalists such survival techniques as how to filter your own urine if you are dehydrated in a desert and how to drag a wounded 200-pound colleague through a field studded with land ( Read more... ) -
Report: Women should be allowed in combat units
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women should finally be allowed to serve fully in combat, a military advisory panel said Friday in a report seeking to dismantle the last major area of discrimination in the armed forces ( Read more... ) -
For a Women’s Soccer Team, Competing Is a Victory
KABUL, Afghanistan - On Tuesday the Afghan national women’s soccer team had only two days left to practice before leaving for its first international competition ( Read more... ) -
Bosnia's rape victims ruin Angelina Jolie's fun, oh noes
Bosnia revokes filming permission for Jolie film
SARAJEVO (AFP) - Bosnian authorities on Wednesday revoked permission for US star Angelina Jolie to shoot part of her directorial debut film there after complaints from a women war victims group, Bosnian radio reported ( Read more... )
