Jazzmin Jiwa
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Jazzmin Jiwa is an international multimedia journalist and documentary producer. She has been published by the BBC, Al-Jazeera, TIME, Reuters, The New Humanitarian, and others for her written, audio, and video reporting focusing on social justice, conflict, displacement, and human trafficking.
Jiwa started as a newspaper journalist and news editor in London and has since worked in over 20 countries while living on three continents. For BBC World, she reported on sex trafficking in Kenya and underground child labor factories in India as part of the documentary series Working Lives: Human Traffic. For TIME, she documented Afghan child refugees who fled unaccompanied as Kabul fell. Reporting for BBC Africa and Reuters, she explored how civil war in Liberia impacted a generation of child soldiers, and for The New Humanitarian, she wrote on women abducted from Uganda by warlords.
Her family history of migration and displacement led her to create an independent multimedia project, Stories Of Survival, to tell unheard, first-person stories of refugees and survivors of war, genocide, and sex assault.
