Mònica Bernabé

Mònica Bernabé
June 2012, at the Madrid Book Club
Born Mònica Bernabé Fernández
December 1972 (age 45)
Barcelona, Spain
Alma mater Autonomous University of Barcelona
Occupation Journalist

Mònica Bernabé Fernández (born December 1972) is a Spanish journalist known for her work as a correspondent in Afghanistan, where she lived for more than seven years. Since January 2015 she has been a correspondent for the newspaper El Mundo in Rome.[1]

Biography

Mònica Bernabé studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2000, after her first trip to Afghanistan and Peshawar, she founded the Association for Human Rights in Afghanistan (Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán; ASDHA), an NGO that supports Afghan women.[2] From then on she traveled to Afghanistan every year, until in mid-2007 she established herself there, corresponding for various media outlets, including the newspaper El Mundo, Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Ràdio Associació de Catalunya 1 (RAC 1), Canal Sur, and the Spanish service of Deutsche Welle.[3]

In 2015 she moved to Rome to take over as correspondent for El Mundo in the Italian capital.[1]

Awards

  • 2010 Julio Anguita Parrado Prize for journalism[3]
  • 2011 Proteus Prize in the field of culture and communication[4]
  • 2013 29th Cirilo Rodríguez Prize for Journalism[5]
  • 2013 Human Rights Award from the General Council of Spanish Lawyers[6]

Works

  • Afganistán, crónica de una ficción (2012)[7]
  • Mujeres. Afganistán, joint exhibition with Gervasio Sánchez[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Nuevas corresponsales en 'El Mundo': Irene Hernández en París y Mónica Bernabé en Roma" [New Correspondents for 'El Mundo': Irene Hernández in Paris and Mónica Bernabé in Rome]. prnoticias (in Spanish). 27 January 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Asociación por los Derechos Humanos en Afganistán (ASDHA)" [Association for Human Rights in Afghanistan] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. 1 2 Caravaca, Toñi (25 February 2010). "La periodista Mònica Bernabé, premio Julio Anguita Parrado" [Journalist Mònica Bernabé, prize Julio Anguita Parrado]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Córdoba, Spain. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "III Premios Proteus de Ética" [Third Proteus Ethics Awards] (in Spanish). Proteus. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "La periodista de El Mundo Mònica Bernabé recibe el Premio Cirilo Rodríguez" [Journalist for El Mundo Mònica Bernabé Receives the Cirilo Rodríguez Award]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "Mònica Bernabé recibe el Premio Derechos Humanos" [Mònica Bernabé Receives the Human Rights Award]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 12 December 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Afganistán, en primera persona" [Afghanistan, in First Person]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Gervasio Sánchez refleja las difíciles condiciones de vida de la mujer afgana" [Gervasio Sánchez Reflects on the Difficult Living Conditions of the Afghan Woman]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). Zaragoza. 3 January 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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