Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Mary Madiga as told to Stella Paul – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/PL) Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA: When I was 25 I went to jail for demanding jobs and civic facilities for Madigas, the Dalit community that I belong to. I was dragged into the police van by constables who pulled my hair, slapped and kicked [...]
WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GM) Bangalore, INDIA: When kids from the slum neighborhood of Bengaluru in Bangalore, South India learn to use free computer ‘open-source’ software, they also learn important lessons in freedom and gender equality. For a city full of shopping malls, big glass offices and stylish cars, Bangalore easily represents India’s best place for [...]
Astrid Zweynert – WNN MDG Stories Women farm workers on the cocoa bean production line, in one of 1,300 Kuapa Kokoo farmer coops based in Ghana, work to reach the final product for fairtrade chocolate that originates from raw cocoa pods. Many of the policies for chocolate company Divine Chocolate offer wide opportunities for women. Image: [...]
Ryan Erickson - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/IMC) Dolo Ado, ETHIOPIA: Dozens of pairs of yellow, green, and blue flip-flop sandals lie neatly organized outside a plastic tent in Zone T of Melkadida refugee camp in the Dolo Ado complex. Located in the resource-poor Somali Region of Ethiopia, Dolo Ado is home to nearly 150,000 Somali [...]
WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GDN) Oxford, ENGLAND, U.K.: At the first-ever World Literacy Summit in Oxford this week, delegates are chewing over a number of proposals for how to get global literacy the attention it, quite rightly, deserves. Estimates suggest around 800 million people worldwide are unable to read or write, and yet funding for literacy [...]
