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Katie Nguyen

Correspondent, AlertNet, TrustLaw and Trust.org

Location: United Kingdom

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Katie Nguyen is an AlertNet correspondent based in London. She previously spent five years in Kenya covering east Africa for Reuters, including assignments to Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tanzania.

Latest blog posts by Katie Nguyen

  1. Blaine Harden, former Washington Post journalist, and Shin Dong-hyuk, who escaped North Korea's Camp 14, a prison holding political enemies of the state.REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

    A journalist's tip for uncovering North Korea's secrets

    03 May 2012 15:22 BST | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | TrustMedia Trainers Blog

    LONDON (TrustMedia) - North Korea - it's been called a hermit kingdom, the most closed and secretive society on earth, a ...

  2. Social activist Anna Hazare displays a note from the Indian government to his supporters as former Indian police officer and social worker Kiran Bedi watches during a campaign against corruption in New Delhi April 9, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

    "I did not grow up to be a wife"

    14 March 2012 13:54 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | The Word on Women

    Fearless and revolutionary, India's first female police officer Kiran Bedi has become a role model for women leaders in her ...

  3. A woman washes clothes in a sugarcane field in Junnar, 165 km (104 miles) southeast of Mumbai, August 18, 2009.REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe

    Family planning and the romance of a better life in India's Bihar state

    13 March 2012 12:06 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | The Word on Women

    Video commercial shows couples the benefits of family planning

  4. s rocks at the entrance of a cave in the mountainous area of Arhab, north of Sanaa January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

    The gender agenda: the humanitarian sector's failure to consider different needs

    07 March 2012 11:00 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | The Word on Women

    Gender issues in emergency response and long-term recovery efforts still overlooked by humanitarian actors, new report argues

  5. Women hold their children as they wait for food from the World Food Programme (WFP) in the north-western Yemeni city of Hajja in this photo from June 2010. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

    Development in Arab world masks high food insecurity

    07 February 2012 13:04 GMT | Comments (1)

    Katie Nguyen | AlertNet News Blog

    The Arab world's dependency on food imports, high population growth and lack of water make it particularly vulnerable

  6. Bagerhat, Bangladesh, August 2011. Picture provided by the British Red Cross

    Why it's so much harder for a Bangladeshi woman to escape a cyclone

    16 December 2011 14:20 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | The Word on Women

    Women in patriarchal Bangladesh often need their husband’s permission to leave home

  7. U.S. aid worker Flavia Wagner (C), who works for Samaritan's Purse, arrives at Khartoum Airport August 30, 2010. Wagner was released in Darfur on Monday after being held by her kidnappers for more than 100 days. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

    "Can aid agencies get sued?"

    30 November 2011 17:46 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | AlertNet News Blog

    Although aid agencies have taken many steps to respond to security challenges, they have often failed to consider their legal...

  8. An internally displaced woman and her children arrive in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 28, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

    Can aid agencies afford to be honest?

    04 October 2011 16:13 BST | Comments (2)

    Katie Nguyen | AlertNet News Blog

    "We are guilty of destroying the nuance that we so want" - World Vision's Dominic Nutt

  9. Outspoken former U.N. aid chief joins Human Rights Watch

    02 September 2011 12:19 BST | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | AlertNet Scrapbook

    Jan Egeland has a reputation for superlative soundbites

  10. A still from

    Fighting forced marriages: TV documentary reveals the reality in Britain

    28 February 2011 16:42 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katie Nguyen | The Word on Women

    Tracking the work of Britain's Forced Marriage Unit

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    Yesterday at 2:51 PM | Comments (0)

    World Vision - East Africa / Geoffrey Kalebbo Denye | Africa Views

  2. Micro-irrigation – with Bollywood backup – points to new way to beat hunger

    Fri., August 26, 11:03 AM | Comments (4)

    Jerome Bossuet | Climate Conversations

  3. Why safe drinking water is not always so safe

    Yesterday at 6:36 PM | Comments (0)

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  4. Migration, militias, coups and climate change in Mali

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    Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia | Climate Conversations

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