Donatella rovera biography of mahatma
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Crisis response: the people who run towards danger
In times of crisis and conflict, there are not many people who would willingly run towards the danger, instead of away from it.
But for Amnesty International’s crisis response worker Donatella Rovera, her job requires just that.
Exposing horror
Most of us learn from an early age to run from danger.
Donatella rovera biography of mahatma
Others are born with an instinct to run towards it. Donatella Rovera is the latter.
For 20 years, armed only with a camera and a sense of justice, she has travelled to the world’s most dangerous locations, telling the stories others were unwilling to tell.
Along the way, she exposed true horror.
In 2014, Ms Rovera, an Amnesty International crisis response worker, was among the first people to reveal the sexual slavery or women by Islamic State in Northern Iraq.
She followed the heartbreaking story of American aid worker Kayla Mueller closely.
She knows the 26-year-old — who was raped, tortured and murdered by IS — could have easily