Media and Events
Tania Bernath is a human rights investigator and writer with 25 years of experience across 40 countries, including work with Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and UN agencies. She speaks and appears in media on human rights, authoritarianism, immigration, and grassroots organizing. Her forthcoming memoir, Now You Know What It’s Like, traces a human rights investigation in The Gambia that ended in her arrest — and the lessons that experience holds for America now.
For interviews and podcasts: Taniamariebernath@gmail.com
Featured Media
MSF Speaking Out Podcast: MSF and the Rohingya, 1992–2014 (2025) This seven-episode podcast explores two decades of Médecins Sans Frontières advocacy for the Rohingya people in Myanmar and Bangladesh — the dilemmas, challenges, and internal disagreements of providing humanitarian aid under an authoritarian regime. Bernath served as MSF’s humanitarian affairs officer in Myanmar in 2013 and appears in Episode 5. Listen: https://www.msf.org/speakingout/podcast
ATLAS Women Profile (2021) An in-depth profile of Bernath’s career in human rights and humanitarian affairs, from a 1994 fellowship in wartime Liberia through Amnesty International and independent consulting. Read: https://www.atlaswomen.org/profiles/2021/11/9/tania-bernath
PBS Worldfocus (2009) Bernath appeared with journalist Martin Savidge to discuss rape and sexual violence in Liberia, drawing on her research and field experience as Amnesty International’s West Africa researcher. [Link: segment unavailable online — Worldfocus’s archive went dark after the show ended in 2010.
NPR, News & Notes: “Liberia’s Women Soldiers Fight for Dignity, Peace” (2008) Alongside Jackie Redd and Florence Ballah, two former soldiers featured in Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace, Bernath discusses women in Liberia’s fighting forces and the challenge of rebuilding after civil war. Listen: https://www.npr.org/2008/07/31/93112314/liberias-women-soldiers-fight-for-dignity-peace
Profile: ATLAS Tania Bernath (2022), an indepth profile of Tania Bernath’s Career in human rights and humanitarian affairs
Worldfocus PBS (2009) Tania appeared on Worldfocus with journalist Martin Savidge to discuss rape and sexual violence in Liberia drawing on her research and field experience with Amnesty International.
Radio :WNYC New York Public Radio (2008)
Alongside Jackie and Florence, two former female child soldiers from Liberia, Tania discusses the experiences of women in Liberia’s fighting forces and the challenges they faced rebuilding their lives after civil war.
Documentary Films
Women of Liberia: Fighting for Peace (2008, Amnesty International) Examines the experiences of women in Liberia’s fighting forces and their efforts to rebuild after civil war — gaps in the DDRR process, ongoing risks, and structural barriers to recovery. Bernath served as Amnesty International’s Liberia researcher and producer, appears in the film, and led its tour with three Liberian women across the US, UK, Netherlands, Canada, and Liberia — a campaign that prompted the government and UN to give greater attention to gender in DDRR programs.he film accompanied Amnesty’s report Liberia: A Flawed Post-War Process Discriminates Against Women and Girls. Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61jNG5gnq9M Report: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr34/004/2008/en
No Woman Should Die Giving Birth: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone (2009, Amnesty International) Addresses Sierra Leone’s maternal health crisis — at the time among the deadliest in the world for mothers. Bernath served as human rights researcher and producer. The film accompanied Amnesty’s report Out of Reach: The Cost of Maternal Health in Sierra Leone and a high-level launch mission with Amnesty’s Secretary General. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHjwc4a57Vo Report: https://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/out-reach-cost-maternal-health-sierra-leone