Jessie Williams
Jessie Williams is a freelance journalist covering international affairs, humanitarian issues and women’s rights. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Time Magazine, BBC News, Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera, among others. She has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine and Sri Lanka.
Latest from Jessie Williams
Sri Lanka’s War Widows Are Clearing Its Land of Mines
Sri Lanka’s devastating civil war left an estimated 89,000 widows as their families’ sole breadwinners. But this need to keep going in the face of injury, displacement and loss has resulted in opportunities, including the land mine clearance that provides a livelihood to many.