Lara Whyte
Contributor
british army
Teenage Girls Serving in British Army Report Record Levels of Sexual Assault
VICE World News can reveal that a record number of teenagers have reported harassment – which are dismissed as “just banter” – even as the military tries to recruit more women.
Lara Whyte
7.21.22
ISIS
How the World's Safest Country Produced So Many ISIS Fighters
Finland, which last week had its first terror attack, spawns the most foreign ISIS fighters per capita of Muslims.
Lara Whyte
8.22.17
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland faces instability as Martin McGuinness steps down from frontline politics
Lara Whyte
1.20.17
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's decades-old peace agreement is collapsing
Lara Whyte
1.10.17
News
The Campaign Recruiting Former Extremists to Stop Girls from Joining ISIS
As the Islamic State loses ground in a U.S.-backed offensive on Mosul, one anti-extremism campaign is trying to hit them where it hurts: the internet.
Lara Whyte
11.17.16
Internet
The Campaign Recruiting Former Extremists to Stop Girls from Joining ISIS
As the Islamic State loses ground in a US-backed offensive on Mosul, one anti-extremism campaign is trying to hit them where it hurts: the internet.
Lara Whyte
11.16.16
Health
The Women Battling the Post-Ebola Teen Pregnancy Epidemic
Two years after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola crisis as a health emergency, life is slowly going back to normal in Sierra Leone—unless you're a teenage girl.
Lara Whyte
8.8.16
kriger
Den danske kvinde der tog til Syrien for at kæmpe mod Islamisk Stat
Joanna Palani var kun 22, da hun forlod sit komfortable liv som studerende i København for at tilslutte sig YPG (Folkets Forsvarsenheder) og Peshmerga på frontlinjen i krigen i Irak og Syrien.
Lara Whyte
5.27.16
PROFILES
The Girl Who Ran Away to Fight ISIS
Joanna Palani was only 22 when she left her comfortable life as a college student behind in Denmark to join up as a YPG and Peshmerga fighter on the frontlines of the war in Iraq and Syria. She tells us how ISIS soldiers are "easy to kill."
Lara Whyte
5.25.16
ISIS
'Every Part of Me Changed in Their Hands': A Former ISIS Sex Slave Speaks Out
When ISIS forces swept into Nadia Murad's village in Sinjar, it marked the beginning of several torturous months of rape, abuse, and captivity. Now the freed Yazidi campaigner is furiously lobbying for the survival of her people.
Lara Whyte
2.18.16
war and conflict
Fifty-Five British Soldiers Are Refusing to Help Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday Murder Investigation
The families of those killed in Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972 have criticized the police investigation after learning that 55 soldiers present that day are refusing to be questioned.
Lara Whyte
10.9.15
middle east
'Soon It Will Be Too Late': The Children Lost Inside the Islamic State
The next jihadi generation is key to the Islamic State's survival. VICE News spoke to a Yazidi teenager who escaped sexual slavery and a man whose wife and children are in captivity in Raqqa.
Lara Whyte
6.15.15
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