Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN Twitter – @womenadvocates (WNN) GLOBAL Media: Twitter is now being used to bring the most relevant and recent news in the world.“Twitter is widely regarded as an essential digital news gathering tool as it is able to distribute information much faster than even the traditional news agencies.,” says news agency France 24. “The phenomenon [...]
WNN Radio release (WNN) OAKLAND, California, U.S.: 2600 years ago, the Buddha created an order of women nuns, but it disappeared after only 1,000 years. Today, Western women Buddhists are allying with Buddhist women in the East to struggle against prohibition on women’s ordination, in places such as Thailand. Kellia Ramares-Watson interviews feminist Buddhist author [...]
WNN Photos Earthquake victim is cared for in mobile maternity unit. One of the victims of the 8 October earthquake in Pakistan able to use the maternity facilities provided by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), through the agency’s use of its Mobile Units, pictured today in Garhi Habibullah, Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. UNFPA is [...]
WNN Photos A woman in Dakhla Refugee Camp. Some 90,000 Sahrawis, or native Saharans, have lived in desolate tent camps in Algeria since the late 1970s, where they fled to escape warfare between Morocco and the Algeria. Several generations of Saharan refugees of Moroccan, Algerian and Mauritanian origin remain trapped in an old desert conflict. [...]
WNN Photos A lack of early treatment has caused an elderly woman and many others to have severe disfigurements. (WNN) SUDAN: One of the 321 people in a village of 3,000 residents living with leprosy in a leper colony, founded in 1952. A small clinic that has received support from the German Leprosy Association treats [...]
