Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Shuriah Niazi – WNN Features (WNN) Bhopal: A new women’s movement has been building in rural India. It’s demanding something never considered before for women who often live in areas without adequate or clean running water. Often these are homes with that have no vented heating or adequate flooring. The demand for decent toilet facilities [...]
Lisa A. Phillips – WNN Reviews (WNN) Stockholm, SWEDEN: Armenian filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian has done much to reveal the horrors of the Armenian genocide under the Ottoman government’s systematic decimination of Armenian citizens that began before World War I and lasted until the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Originally stretching across a large [...]
Nusrat Ara – WNN Features (WNN) SRINAGAR, Indian-Administered Kashmir: Preference for a male child is a known fact in Kashmir. Like most South Asian societies this preference in gender can often turn into prejudice, discrimination and worse. Many modern cases of discrimination against girls are now resulting in death. Indian history and culture has brought [...]
Shubhi Tandon – WNN Latest (WNN) NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: On a cold January day in 2001, 18 year old Naang Yin (all names in this story have been changed to protect identities), daughter of two shopkeepers in the Shan State of Burma, went to a military camp set up by the Burmese troops to buy some [...]
Svetlana Bachevanova - WNN Features (WNN) AFGHANISTAN: Photojournalist Svetlana Bachevanova interviews an exceptional photographer, Paula Lerner, as part of a new global platform for documentary photographers dedicated to creating an awareness of social injustice and violations of human rights called FotoEvidence. Paula Lerner’s passion for photographing people has taken her from the Amazon to Afghanistan. Since [...]
