Alia Dharssi
Class of 2014
FGJ 2014, Covering Poverty and Development
M.Phil. (Development Studies)
Alia is a development studies scholar who came to the fellowship from graduate school at the University of Oxford, where she’d researched a social movement for housing rights in Mumbai’s slums. As a global correspondent, she wanted to place development issues on the public agenda. Alia spent eight months covering economic development and human rights issues for our media partners and, with Ashley Renders, spearheaded a major investigation for Reuters-affiliate Trust.org into the way big oil companies manage royalty payments around the world. Alia is now a William J. Clinton Fellow at the America-India Foundation.
“The fellowship honed my ability to find great story ideas, sharpened my investigative skills and significantly improved my writing. The best part of the program was the opportunity to be mentored by talented journalism veterans. Discussing my work with my mentors over the course of eight months helped me to build solid reporting skills and transformed how I analyze important issues in my beat. I’ve learned to look at my academic expertise with the mindset of a journalist.“
Teaching Children Regardless of Grade
How the temporary foreign worker program is shaping Canada’s underground economy
Canada faces big questions about the future of immigration
How football moved the goalposts for girls in rural India
Fatal explosions, toxic spills and other commercial catastrophes in 2014
The City Effect: rapid urbanisation raises questions about how much urban government is enough
Cities are places where the powerless can shape history: the Right to the City in the 21st century
Good managers and dedicated streets: what Indian cities can learn from Bogota
LSE Urban Age: Spatial planning one of few clear solutions for climate change
Harnessing People Power
Canada’s Foreign Aid Strategy Should Prioritize Condoms
Canada Is Far from Breaking the Glass Ceiling Over Women in the Workplace
Using the Internet to Save Lives in Iran
How the World Bank Got Over the Curse of Knowledge
I Was Sniffed for Explosives by Guard Dogs at Prime Minister Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit
Canada’s Selective Approach to Development
Pushing for Change in the Garment Industry
US oil firm prosecutions show need for transparency – activists
Canadians Are Doing Very Cool Shit to Save the Lives of Moms and Babies Around the World
Sugar’s sticky trail: Coke and Pepsi work to clean up their supply chains
Big oil firms accused of cheating on royalties lead fight to limit US disclosure rules
Some NGOs in Nepal do more harm than good say experts
New seeds of conflict: 20 years post-genocide, there are fears than Rwandan schools ferment hate
Meet the Investigators Who Risk Their Lives to Take Incriminating Documents Out of Syria
The Solutions to Climate Change are Solutions for the 99 Percent
It takes a village to protect women’s land
It takes a few good women to fight for a secure home in Brazil’s slums
Can you save animals without sacrificing people?
Saskatchewan band becomes first of First Nations to take full control of natural resource royalties
PDAC 2014: Miners keen to buy local in bid to dampen hostility to new projects
PDAC 2014: Anti-corruption laws in focus for miners
PDAC 2014: Kinross confident it can operate through turmoil in Russia
Third World Lessons in healthcare: How ‘reverse innovation’ could revolutionize Canada’s medical landscape
Fate of U.S. agency rule on extractives hangs in the balance as two SEC regulators tilt toward industry
Charity’s cellphones help remote villagers monitor their rulers
Where Human Rights Law Meets Globalization
Credit Suisse ignored own human rights commitments -watchdog
Journalist to use stories from sex trafficking survivors to educate children
Q+A – Afghanistan lacks political will to improve women’s rights, says country’s human rights chief
‘Stunt headed nowhere’: Activists decry plan to use drones to secretly film forced labour in India
City dwellers seek to transform debate on urban poverty
Negotiation, not confrontation, is way to bring change to Arab region – expert
Society must pressure govts to stop human trafficking-expert
Maternal health must focus more on girls-Christy Turlington
Activists protest mining industry’s harmful impact on women
CSR Norms: From Principle to Practice
Canada learns from Bangladesh about ways to tackle poverty
Canada has trouble counting its poor, highlighting a global problem with data
