Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
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: [...]
Emma Batha - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/Trustlaw) Naimey, Niger, AFRICA: Religious leaders in Niger have a key role to play in curbing its soaring population growth – a subject which until recently was taboo there, the European Union’s top aid official has said following a trip to the country where hunger is looming for millions. When [...]
Wendi Bernadette Losha (as told to Leocadia Bongben) – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) CAMEROON: As a coordinator with ACTWID-Kongadzem (a non-governmental, non-denominational and non-profit-making organisation) I am going to COP17 (the ‘Conference of Parties’) in Durban to represent rural Cameroonian women’s views on climate change and what we need to change to farm sustainably. Agriculture as [...]
Emma Batha – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) LONDON: The first rape victim who doctor Denis Mukwege treated in his hospital in eastern Congo had been so badly mutilated he thought it was a one-off attack by “some nutter”. But she was soon followed by many others who had been subjected to equally unimaginable cruelty. Some [...]
Charles Kenney and Andy Sumner – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) Global: Remember the poverty trap? Countries stuck in destitution because of weak institutions put in place by colonial overlords, or because of climates that foster disease, or geographies that limit access to global markets, or simply by the fact that poverty is overwhelmingly self-perpetuating. Apparently [...]
