Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Lys Anzia – 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 [...]
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 [...]
WNN Photos UN staff celebrates diversity. (WNN) UNITED NATIONS: More than fifty countries, military staff and civilian police are represented in this year’s parade, from the Visitor’s plaza to the Secretariat building fountain. The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, [...]
