Jessica Mendoza

2014 Human Rights Fellow

GlobalPost

Jessica Mendoza is the 2014 Human Rights Fellow for The GroundTruth Project and GlobalPost Special Reports and a recent graduate of the journalism master's program at Northeastern University in Boston.

She has written and reported on women's rights, labor rights and global health for the RIGHTS blog and PULSE. She also manages GroundTruth's social media presence.

Before coming to Boston, Jessica worked as a radio host for DWTM Magic 89.9, a pop music station in Manila, Philippines. She was also a sideline reporter for the Philippine Basketball Association, a freelance writer and an events host.


Building a safe place for Madrid’s aging LGBT community to call home

Conflict

A plan for the first retirement home in Spain catering specifically to the needs of elderly lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals.

As Bangladesh files Rana Plaza charges, neighbor Philippines yet to learn labor lessons

Conflict

India’s experts look to education in trying to curb prevalence of rape

Conflict

UN: Millennium Development Goals leaving some regions behind

Politics

In India, village elders sanction ‘retaliatory rape’

Conflict

Public-private collaboration paved way for new portable TB test

Politics

Tuberculosis experts say partnerships key to development of new diagnostics and drugs in the fight against TB.

HIV pill: Progress or setback?

Politics

New WHO recommendation on prevention medicine highlights debate about how to end the virus for good.

In Bangladesh, still a long way to go for safer workplaces

Conflict

But progress is being made as Bangladesh’s thriving garment industry reforms.

Aid groups ‘stretched very thin’ as conflicts persist in Middle East

Politics

Even with added funding, relief workers see difficulties in the months ahead.

US lawyers say movement to protect the unborn increasingly hurts mothers

Conflict

At the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, legal scholars said US women are losing rights as unborn children gain them.