Foundation turns focus on Brazil and China

“We will also organise a crucial conference on women’s rights in partnership with The International Herald Tribune,” chief executive Monique Villa, pictured, said in the charity’s annual report for 2011. “Called Trust Women, this conference will bring together leaders from corporations, law firms, government and civil society to examine what works when women’s rights are placed at the heart of economic and social development.”

Villa said 2011 was an award-winning year for the revamped AlertNet, the Foundation’s global humanitarian news site, with extraordinary multimedia stories from the field, including an exclusive reporting trip to North Korea.

“Our journalists set the agenda on the human impacts of natural disasters, wars, hunger, disease and climate change. And with the launch of YouTrust, a new multimedia social media platform, our communities of aid workers, lawyers, social entrepreneurs and journalists have a fantastic set of tools to engage others on issues they care about.

“TrustMedia too had an extraordinary year, organising more journalism and media-training courses around the world than ever before. In October, the team launched in Egypt Aswat Masriya, a website in Arabic and English to provide fair, independent and accurate news and information around Egypt’s elections.” ■