Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Sabine Clappaert – WNN Features (WNN) Kiev, UKRAINE: At first sight, few people would mark the group of topless young women protesting in the streets of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, as outspoken advocates or feminists. Garlands of flowers adorn their waist-length hair, strategically thrown forward to cover their bare breasts. But the black graffiti-style [...]
Elahe Amani with Lys Anzia – WNN Features (WNN) Tehran, IRAN: Built in 1971 Evin prison, in Iran’s capital city of Tehran, is a place where incarceration for prisoners brings with it depression, frustration and isolation. Prisoners who are mothers often have a secret, and haunting, fear of ‘being forgotten’ by the children they have [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) New York, NEW YORK, U.S.: In a detailed report outlining press freedom worldwide, human rights freedom and monitoring organization Freedom House has brought the attention of the world to deteriorating conditions in 63 countries where freedom is not available to the press. “The analysis found that only 14.5 percent of the world’s [...]
Rose Odengo – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GPI) Kigali, RWANDA, AFRICA: It’s Friday afternoon at Groupe Scolaire St. André, a secondary school in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Students are headed home for the three-week spring holiday. Clad in white shirts, khaki skirts and trousers with yellow sweaters, the nearly 700 students, who range in age from 11 [...]
