{"id":10881,"date":"2014-04-29T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10881"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:39:26","slug":"diamond-in-the-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=10881","title":{"rendered":"Diamond In The Rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Tu3MKMM.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNiamh Griffin travelled to Sierra Leone in September 2013 to explore how women and men are tackling sexual violence. High rates of these crimes in Sierra Leone are a sad legacy of a brutal decade-long civil war which ended in 2002, leaving thousands mentally and physically scarred.<\/p>\n<p>She met with people determined to change this, visiting rape crisis centres known as Rainbo Centres. They are funded by Irish Aid, and run by American NGO International Recue Committee with local group The Rainbo Initiative. She also spoke with police officers in sexual assault units, male former offenders as well as judges and prison officers to understand how rape is being fought on all levels.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/147056921&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u200bHer trip for NearFM was funded by the Simon Cumbers Media Fund <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simoncumbersmediafund.ie\/project-showcase\/diamond-in-the-rough-by-niamh-griffin\/\">http:\/\/www.simoncumbersmediafund.ie\/project-showcase\/diamond-in-the-rough-by-niamh-griffin\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nearfm.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cumbers-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003\" alt=\"cumbers logo\" src=\"http:\/\/nearfm.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cumbers-logo.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_478\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('478','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=10881-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"download.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niamh Griffin travelled to Sierra Leone in September 2013 to explore how women and men are tackling sexual violence. High rates of these crimes in Sierra Leone are a sad legacy of a brutal decade-long civil war which ended in 2002, leaving thousands mentally and physically scarred. She met with people determined to change this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_479\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('479','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=10881-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/soundcloud.com\/nearfm\/diamond-in-the-rough\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"download.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamond-in-the-rough","category-documentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}