Jessie Graham
Freelance Journalist
Brooklyn, NY
TOPIC: Produce a series of radio stories on efforts to provide treatment for depression and combat stigma of mental illnesses in the Middle East and Africa as well as among African and Middle Eastern populations in the United States.
I'm Marco Werman and this is The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WBGH Boston. Human Rights Watch has found a disturbing trend in northern Iraq. In a report issued today, the rights group says a significant number of Kurdish women in the self-ruled region has undergone female genital mutilation.
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