Annie Hylton
Bio:
Annie Hylton is an adjunct assistant professor of gender and migration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Hylton's work focuses on human rights, gender, and immigration, and the human toll of conflict. She is a former international lawyer, originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Annie has worked and reported in Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia. She tweets @HyltonAnne.
In a new report, a troubling pattern in which journalists paid little mind to ethics and consent when interviewing survivors of sexualized violence emerges.
For decades, the Rohingya have endured chronic discrimination, including violence, restrictions on freedom of movement, and renunciation of citizenship, making them the world’s largest stateless group. So why has the media remained relatively silent until this new crisis, and what does that mean for those who are suffering?
In September 2016, when I arrived at a gloomy, two-star Econo Lodge hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Daey*—which means “mother” in Kurdish—was sleeping.
In Rural Tamil Nadu, Child Marriage Was Already Rampant. Then Came the Pandemic.
