Jineth Bedoya

Jineth Bedoya Lima is a Colombian journalist who reports on law enforcement, paramilitary groups, and abductions within Colombia.  She was abducted twice while reporting, kidnapped and raped.

Today she continues to work as a journalist with the protection of government-assigned bodyguards and a bulletproof car and campaigns to bring awareness to the issue of sexual violence.

I have the will and the strength to do it because I’m a journalist and I learned that I couldn’t stay silent, but also because there are a lot of people who cannot speak up as loud as I do

Portrait of Jineth Bedoya digital media, Artist Katherine Krizek

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