Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini

Rana Husseini is an award-winning journalist and human rights activist who, from her home base in Jordan, has been instrumental in bringing the issue of so-called honour crimes against women to public attention and for securing changes to the law in Jordan to bring stronger penalties for crimes of these types.

Rana Husseini has been honoured on the international stage with a number of significant awards including: The 1995 MEDNEWS prize award for best article "Murder in the name of honour," the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998, the Human Rights Watch Award in 2000 for being part of the National Jordanian Committee to Eliminate so-called Crimes of Honour and the Ida B. Wells award in 2003 for Bravery in Journalism.

She is a senior reporter at "The Jordan Times" and an advisor to the human rights organisation "Freedom House".

[http://www.ranahusseini.com Rana Husseini's web site]

[http://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/rana.html PBS Article about Rana Husseini]

[http://booksthatmatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/rana-husseini-and-book-that-matters.html Rana Husseini's forthcoming book on honour crimes]


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