Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Elahe Amani – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Long Beach, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Mother’s Day 2013 now is long over. No more colorful Mother’s Day cards next to the cash register. No more advertisements in our local newspapers about the best deal for electronic picture frames. Jewelry sales are now depressed as flower bouquets and miniature [...]
Zahira Sarwar – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, AMERICAS: Take a moment to reflect on what comes to mind when you hear or read the word “Afghanistan.” Some common things that often come to people’s minds if they have never personally been to Afghanistan include war or violence, poverty, drugs, oppressed burqa-clad women and [...]
Marissa Begonia – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/50.50) London, UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE: Looking back nineteen years, I don’t even know if I made the right decision in leaving the Philippines to become a migrant domestic worker. All I know is that I had to find a way out to keep my children alive in the hope of [...]
Cameron Conaway – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA, SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA: For many, the white cloth is an image that conjures up aristocracy, elaborate formal dinners where the knives must be to the right of the plate and the spoons to the right of the knives. But in Cambodia, as I learned while at a [...]
Shaliz Navab – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) United Nations, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: I always considered myself quite globally aware, possessing a quadruple citizenship and having attended international schools all my life. Nevertheless the term diversity was redefined to me the moment I stepped into the United Nations building in New York City to attend [...]
