CBS Reporter Recounts a 'Merciless' Assault

Kudos to the Committee to Protect Journalists for agreeing to revise their handbooks in order to better address sexual assault. --Randal

April 28, 2011

CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault

By BRIAN STELTER

Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.

Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men.

Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

Her experience in Cairo underscored the fact that female journalists often face a different kind of violence. While other forms of physical violence affecting journalists are widely covered — the traumatic brain injurysuffered by the ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff in Iraq in 2006 was a front-page story at that time — sexual threats against women are rarely talked about within journalistic circles or in the news media.

With sexual violence, “you only have your word,” Ms. Logan said in the interview. “The physical wounds heal. You don’t carry around the evidence the way you would if you had lost your leg or your arm in Afghanistan.”

Little research has been conducted about the prevalence of sexual violence affecting journalists in conflict zones. But in the weeks following Ms. Logan’s assault, other women recounted being harassed and assaulted while working overseas, and groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists said they would revise their handbooks to better address sexual assault.

Jeff Fager, the chairman of CBS News and the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” said that the segment about the assault on Ms. Logan would raise awareness of the issue. “There’s a code of silence about it that I think is in Lara’s interest and in our interest to break,” he said.

Until now the only public comment about the assault came four days after it took place, when Ms. Logan was still in the hospital. She and Mr. Fager drafted a short statement that she had “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.”

That statement, Ms. Logan said, “didn’t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of.”

The assault happened the day that Ms. Logan returned to Cairo, having left a week earlier after being detained and interrogated by Egyptian forces. “The city was on fire with celebration” over Mr. Mubarak’s exit, she said, comparing it to a Super Bowl party. She and a camera crew traversed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the celebrations, interviewing Egyptians and posing for photographs with people who wanted to be seen with an American journalist.

“There was a moment that everything went wrong,” she recalled.

As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan’s pants off. She said: “Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here.’ That was literally the moment the mob set on me.”

Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan’s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were “helpless,” Mr. Fager said, “because the mob was just so powerful.” A bodyguard who had been hired to accompany the team was able to stay with Ms. Logan for a brief period of time. “For Max to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts,” Mr. Fager said. He said Ms. Logan “described how her hand was sore for days after — and the she realized it was from holding on so tight” to the bodyguard’s hand.

They estimated that they were separated from her for about 25 minutes.

“My clothes were torn to pieces,” Ms. Logan said.

She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: “What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.”

After being rescued by a group of civilians and Egyptian soldiers, she was swiftly flown back to the United States. “She was quite traumatized, as you can imagine, for a period of time,” Mr. Fager said. Ms. Logan said she decided almost immediately that she would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of “millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse.”

More than a dozen journalists have been detained in Libya in the past two months, including four who were working for The Times. One of the Times journalists, Lynsey Addario, said she was repeatedly groped and harassed by her Libyan captors.

For Ms. Logan, learning about Ms. Addario’s experience was a “setback” in her recovery. While Ms. Logan, CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, said she would definitely return to Afghanistan and other conflict zones, she said she had decided — for the moment — not to report from the Middle Eastern countries where protests were widespread. “The very nature of what we do — communicating information — is what’s undoing these regimes,” she said. “It makes us the enemy, whether we like it or not.”

Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said. “When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.”

After the “60 Minutes” segment is broadcast, though, she does not intend to give other interviews on the subject. “I don’t want this to define me,” she said.

She said that the kindness and support shown by Mr. Fager and others at CBS and by strangers — like the high school class in Texas and the group of women at ABC News who wrote letters to her — was a “very big part of picking myself up and restoring my dignity and my self-worth.”

Among the letters she received, she said, was one from a woman who lives in Canada who was raped in the back of a taxi in Cairo in early February, amid the protests there. “That poor woman had to go into the airport begging people to help her,” Ms. Logan recalled. When she returned home, “her family told her not to talk about it.”

Ms. Logan said that as she read the letter, she started to sob. “It was a reminder to me of how fortunate I was,” she said.

USAID's New Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

Strengthening USAID's Gender Programming and Organizational Structure


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April 26, 2011
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Washington, DC – Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), released the following statement on the establishment of USAID's new Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.

“Strengthening human rights and fueling sustainable economic growth in developing countries both depend on empowering women and working toward gender equality. Eliminating hunger, mitigating the effects of global climate change, and drastically reducing maternal mortality relies on bolstering the role women play in their societies. Secretary Clinton and I are both strongly committed to building the vision of gender equality and female empowerment laid out in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. At USAID, we've taken important steps to address gender issues. President Obama's Feed the Future and the Global Health Initiatives both reflect a dedication to increasingly include women and girls as leaders, implementers and beneficiaries of our programs. We've also increased the number of missions carrying out assessments that incorporate gender into country planning and programming. And last month, I established a Policy Task Team to craft a new policy on gender equality and women's empowerment—our first in nearly 30 years.

To implement these objectives, we are transforming Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade's (EGAT) Women in Development Office into a new Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, focused on building partnerships that can deliver results. This office will also give greater support to female entrepreneurship, scale up initiatives designed to enhance women's ownership of key assets like land and housing and work to reduce gender gaps in access to new technology and infrastructure. Recognizing that conflict affected environments pose a disproportionate challenge for women and girls, the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) will now be directly responsible for USAID's efforts at combatting sexual and gender-based violence and trafficking in persons. Two EGAT specialists will be transferred to DCHA to help support these efforts.

I've asked the Deputy Administrator to ensure that gender issues remain at the forefront of our programming and policy. To aid him in that effort, today we are welcoming Carla Koppell as our new Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.

Carla will accelerate our efforts to integrate gender equality as cross-cutting throughout the agency. She will provide our leadership with expert advice and guidance, having most recently served as director of the Institute for Inclusive Security and the Washington office of the Hunt Alternatives Fund. Carla has worked extensively with women and civil society leaders from conflict areas around the world including Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, the Middle East, and Sudan. And she is also quite familiar with USAID, having previously served at the Agency from 1997-1999 as Special Assistant to the Administrator and Director of our climate change program.

Carla joins a growing number of gender experts, including Dr. Caren Grown whom we welcomed as our Senior Gender Advisor in PPL earlier this year. Caren is currently leading a new Policy Task Team established to craft the new gender equality policy.

Taken together, these steps will reaffirm our commitment to gender equality and help harness the power, creativity, and energy of women and girls to deliver meaningful results for the developing world.”

Event: "Women & War" Book Launch and Symposium

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A decade ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), which calls for women's full participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women in war, particularly from sexual violence. However, today gender-based analysis of conflict often remains outside the mainstream of security dialogues.

The book, Women & War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century , underscores that much needs to be done to develop effective conflict prevention and management strategies that are inclusive of women and that give women a voice at the negotiating table. This edited volume is a trans-Atlantic collaborative effort to highlight innovative approaches toward ensuring greater participation of women at the negotiating table, and the ways in which women will make a difference in the security arena over the next decade.

Join us for the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Peace Research Institute-Oslo (PRIO) book launch and international symposium on the next decade of UNSCR 1325 on the afternoon of May 5th and all day on May 6th. The symposium will further examine the issues of women and war, power and protection in the 21st century, and explore the implementation of gender-sensitive policies in defense, diplomacy, development, and the role of documentary film, media and the arts in this endeavor.

Thursday, May 5, 2011 Women & War Book Launch and Reception Hosted by the Royal Norwegian Embassy
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Friday, May 6, 2011 Women & War Symposium
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  • Michèle Flournoy,
    Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
    Keynote Address: "UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the U.S. National Action Plan: A Department of Defense Perspective"
  • Ambassador Wegger Christian Strømmen
    Ambassador of Norway to the United States
    Royal Norwegian Embassy
  • Donald Steinberg
    Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Ambassador Melanne Verveer
    U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State
  • Pat Mitchell
    President and CEO, The Paley Center
  • Abigail Disney
    Filmmaker, Philanthropist, Film Producer of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," Founder of Fork Films
  • Femke van Velzen
    Filmmaker, Philanthropist, Film Producer of "Weapon of War", Co-Founder of IF Productions
  • Agnes M. Fallah-Kamara Umunna
    Executive Director and Founder of Straight from the Heart Project, Journalist, and Radio Producer
  • Morley
    Composer and Singer
  • Sanam Anderlini
    Executive Director, International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)
  • Tilman Brück
    Department Head and Professor, International Economics, German Institute for Economic Research
  • Inger Skjelsbæk
    Senior Researcher, Deputy Director, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
  • Sheldon Himelfarb
    Director, USIP Center of Innovation: Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
  • Tara Sonenshine
    Executive Vice President, USIP
  • Helga Hernes
    Senior Adviser, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
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    Director, USIP Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
  • Kathleen Kuehnast
    Director, USIP Gender and Peacebuilding Center

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Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women

Rebellion: Smashing stereotypes of Arab women

Women have been at the forefront of various Arab uprisings, forging their own identity in the process.

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Arab women organised demonstrations and pickets, mobilised fellow citizens, and expressed their demands for democratic change [EPA]

The Arab revolutions are not only shaking the structure of tyranny to the core - they are shattering many of the myths about the Arab region that have been accumulating for decades. Topping the list of dominant myths are those of Arab women as caged in, silenced, and invisible. Yet these are not the types of women that have emerged out of Tunisia, Egypt, or even ultra-conservative Yemen in the last few weeks and months.

Not only did women actively participate in the protest movements raging in those countries, they have assumed leadership roles as well. They organised demonstrations and pickets, mobilised fellow citizens, and eloquently expressed their demands and aspirations for democratic change.

Like Israa Abdel Fatteh, Nawara Nejm, and Tawakul Karman, the majority of the women are in their 20s and 30s. Yet there were also inspiring cases of senior activists as well: Saida Saadouni, a woman in her 70s from Tunisia,  draped the national flag around her shoulders and partook in the Qasaba protests which succeeded in toppling M. Ghannouchi's provisional government. Having protested for two weeks, she breathed a unique revolutionary spirit into the thousands who congregated around her to hear her fiery speeches. "I resisted French occupation. I resisted the dictatorships of Bourguiba and Ben Ali. I will not rest until our revolution meets its ends, for your sakes my sons and daughters, not for mine," said Saadouni.

Whether on the virtual battlefields of the Internet or the physical protests in the streets, women have been proving themselves as real incubators of leadership. This is part of a wider phenomenon characteristic of these revolutions: The open politics of the street have bred and matured future leaders. They are grown organically in the field, rather than being imposed upon from above by political organisations, religious groups, or gender roles.

Another stereotype being dismantled in action is the association of the Islamic headscarf with passivity, submissiveness, and segregation. Among this new generation of prominent Arab women, the majority choose to wear the hijab. Urbanised and educated, they are no less confident or charismatic than their unveiled sisters. They are an expression of the complex interplay of Muslim culture, with processes of modernisation and globalisation being the hallmark of contemporary Arab society.

This new model of home grown women leaders, born out of revolutionary struggle, represents a challenge to two narratives, which, though different in detail, are similar in reference to the myth of Arab cultural singularity; they both dismiss Arab women as inert creatures devoid of will-power.

The first narrative - which is dominant in conservative Muslim circles - sentences women to a life of childbearing and rearing; women are to live in the narrow confines of their homes at the mercy of their husbands and male relatives. Their presence must revolve around notions of sexual purity and family honour; reductionist interpretations of religion are looked upon for justification.

The other view is espoused by Euro-American neo-liberals, who view Arab and Muslim women through the narrow prism of the Taliban model: Miserable objects of pity in need of benevolent intervention from intellectuals, politicians, or even the military. Arab women await deliverance from the dark cage of veiling to a promised garden of enlightenment.

Arab women are rebelling against both models: They are seizing the reigns of their own destinies by liberating themselves as they liberate their societies from dictatorship. The model of emancipation they are shaping with their own hands is one defined by their own needs, choices, and priorities - not anyone else's.

Although there may be resistance to this process of emancipation, Tahrir Square and Qasaba are now part of the psyche and formative culture of Arab women. Indeed, they are finally given a voice to their long-silenced yearnings for liberation from authoritarianism - both political and patriarchal.

Soumaya Ghannoushi is a freelance writer specialising in the history of European Perceptions of Islam. Her work has appeared in a number of leading British papers including the Guardian and the Independent.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Supporting women's rights in remote areas

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Supporting women’s rights in remote areas

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According to NGO reports rapes, forced marriages, domestic violence and early pregnances remain of grave concern in northeastern Central African Republic.

NAIROBI, 25 April 2011 (IRIN) - Violations of human rights are on the increase in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR), with aid workers expressing concern for protection of civilians amid renewed clashes between government troops and the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) rebels - one of the few groups that has not signed a peace agreement with the government.

"Killings, arbitrary arrests, burning and looting of villages, forced disappearances and abductions are frequently reported, in particular in conflict-affected areas in the north and in regions where CPJP and LRA [Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army] are present," Fornelle Poutou, the secretary-general of the Association of Women Lawyers of Central Africa (AFJC), told IRIN. "People are afraid to [go] to the police because they have no confidence in them, fear repercussions or simply do not know their rights.

"The 12 April attacks in Ndélé, in the Bamingui Bangoran prefecture, displaced hundreds of people. Part of the administration was paralyzed and people live in fear because of lack of security."

Know your rights

In 2010, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), with the AFJC, set up a legal aid programme for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), offering sensitization and awareness training on human rights, particularly for women.

Legal clinics integrated into the strategy of the Ministry of Justice to promote people's access to justice have been built in several rural areas in the northeastern prefectures of Ouham, Ouham Pende and Bamingui Bangoran, areas that have experienced significant population displacement since they have the highest presence of armed groups.

Alberta Santini, a protection officer for the council in Bangui, the capital, told IRIN: "Promoting a culture respectful of human rights in contexts marked by long-term conflict, lack of knowledge of legal protection tools and negative female archetypes is a great challenge."

Clinics in Ndélé, Paoua and Batangafo are managed by an AFJC lawyer, with the help of three to four paralegals, all volunteers, familiarizing communities on women’s rights and strengthening their capacity to assert themselves.

Psychosocial support

The team also takes GBV survivors through a series of integrated care systems, including medical care, psychosocial support and eventual social reintegration.

"The great difficulties [stem] from the very nature of the judicial system," Santini said. "A system that does not properly develop the skills and knowledge of people working in the legal and judicial system, lack of human and material resources to implement it in the remote areas and a generalized lack of confidence of the people in the respect of their rights."

The clinics provide education, legal consultations, mediation, guidance and support to local populations. However, said one volunteer: "Due to insecurity, people often cannot leave their villages to report violence cases to the CAR army. But with all the complaints of violence and other abuses against the [army] itself, many say they would not report to them anyway even if [they] had to."

Since their establishment, the clinics have become centres for counselling on female genital mutilation/cutting, early marriages and early pregnancies as well as legal consultation for domestic violence, parental responsibilities towards children, responsibilities to husbands or wives and forced marriage.

Some 5,461 people, 11 paralegals and 55 focal points have been trained and 1,395 people across the country have been sensitized to human rights and protection issues.

In Ndélé, 1,260 people were trained, mostly women, including four paralegals and 20 focal points.

Awareness-raising was also conducted among local authorities, chiefs, imams, community leaders, security forces, staff of international NGOs, and other economic and social groups.

Since December 2010, counselling and mediation sessions have reached about 100 people, according to Santini.

Potou told IRIN: "Through legal clinics, we try to sensitize people to know their rights and refer to [the] justice system. Our biggest success is to see many women visit the clinic and tell us about the violation of human rights and report violence cases or to get advice.

"Because of the presence of armed groups in Ndélé, the population keeps on living in fear of violence and human rights abuses. There is still a lot to do to get people to know their rights and claim them.

"But the government should also do its part to support the knowledge of the legal system and ensure that justice takes its course," Potou said.

In Bamingui-Bangoran there are no resident judges because of the instability.

"I see behavioural changes in our communities ever since sensitization programmes have started. But we need judges to come here. How can we believe in justice if judges themselves refuse to come to Ndélé?" a beneficiary of the legal clinic asked.

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This Mother's Day, pay tribute to a woman in your life

ICRW is using Mother’s Day as a fundraising tool for research on women and girls. An interesting tactic. Thoughts on this approach? --Randal

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Karl Feld, formerly of D3, will be in the office tomorrow afternoon to discuss his work with IREX. Karl has wide experience in management and executive positions at global commercial, non-profit and government research organizations.  He has directed a variety of types of research and evaluation for public policy and international development programming, including work for USAID and DoS. Karl specializes in operating in difficult research environments which have included places like Afghanistan, war-time Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Sudan and Haiti. 

Karl left D3 Systems on favorable terms on March 31.  At this point he is considering making himself available for consulting assignments to organizations like IREX.  Karl brings a wide variety of experience and knowledge to IREX which overlaps many of our organization's operational areas.  These include:

  1) deep knowledge of conflict resolution and stabilization initiatives in post-conflict societies from my role as a Principal Investigator for a very large, multi-year DoD project which studied this topic 
2) audience measurement and successful technical consulting experience on media development projects for both commercial enterprises and development organizations.  This is the work most of you are most familiar with.
3) wide experience with research on gender and women's issues around the world from my role as Principal investigator for D3's WIMC studies
4) technical competency as well as a public opinion research background in civil society activities from my technical work on D&G initiatives before entering the research field and subsequent research work;

5) an applied understanding of M&E techniques; and
6) Youth Programming and educational evaluation work.

  Please see attached bio and CV for more details. Karl also brings with him a global network of local research fieldwork organizations. If you would like to join us in the 3rd Floor conference room, please come on by!

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Dear All,

Karl Feld, formerly of D3, will be in the office tomorrow afternoon to discuss his work with IREX. Karl has wide experience in management and executive positions at global commercial, non-profit and government research organizations.  He has directed a variety of types of research and evaluation for public policy and international development programming, including work for USAID and DoS. Karl specializes in operating in difficult research environments which have included places like Afghanistan, war-time Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Sudan and Haiti. 

Karl left D3 Systems on favorable terms on March 31.  At this point he is considering making himself available for consulting assignments to organizations like IREX.  Karl brings a wide variety of experience and knowledge to IREX which overlaps many of our organization's operational areas.  These include:

  1) deep knowledge of conflict resolution and stabilization initiatives in post-conflict societies from my role as a Principal Investigator for a very large, multi-year DoD project which studied this topic 
2) audience measurement and successful technical consulting experience on media development projects for both commercial enterprises and development organizations.  This is the work most of you are most familiar with.
3) wide experience with research on gender and women's issues around the world from my role as Principal investigator for D3's WIMC studies
4) technical competency as well as a public opinion research background in civil society activities from my technical work on D&G initiatives before entering the research field and subsequent research work;

5) an applied understanding of M&E techniques; and
6) Youth Programming and educational evaluation work.

  Please see attached bio and CV for more details. Karl also brings with him a global network of local research fieldwork organizations. If you would like to join us in the 3rd Floor conference room, please come on by!

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4/28 NY Michelle Bachelet on Role of UN Women in Empowering Women Worldwide

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