Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Aliya Bashir – WNN Justice (WNN) Srinagar, Indian Administered KASHMIR: For over two decades, it has been an endless wait for families in the Indian Administered Region of Kashmir. Missing what they fondly call “their dear ones” these families have experienced what they describe as “immense pain” for family members who have disappeared from the [...]
Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) New Delhi, INDIA: A two-year-old girl, Baby Falak, died of cardiac arrest after being severely battered. A four-day-old girl was ‘rejected’ by her own parents after birth. A three-month-old girl, Neha Afreen, was severely battered by her father – because he wanted a boy instead. All have been victims [...]
Leigh Cuen – WNN Features (WNN) Dhaka, BANGLADESH: “My nose, eyebrows, eyelids, lips all peeled off in to my hands. I held on to the skin and flesh thinking the doctors would be able to reattach it,” Bina Akhter told author and United Nations consultant Elora Halim Chowdhury, describing how a group of men attacked [...]
Aliya Bashir – WNN Features (WNN) SRINAGAR, Indian administered Kashmir: “Is human trafficking an issue of crime or development?” asked an April 2011 in-depth report on sex-trafficking and global girls by Sanjog India, an advocacy organization based in Kolkata that helps rescue and rehabilitate girls trapped in the cycle of sex-work. “Most would argue – [...]
Davinder Kumar - WNN Features (WNN) Kadiri, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA: Five-year-old Aliya thinks it is some kind of a game she must soon master to be a winner. From the time she wakes up till she goes to bed Aliya watches her mother and all the girls and women in her neighbourhood consumed in a [...]
