Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Dana A.M. Akhdar – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) London, UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE: Being stateless is a pain for eternity, let’s change this…. I’m a stateless Palestinian who never had a home country that I’m allowed to reside in permanently. This led me to seek citizenship in Norway, but I still had to move on because I [...]
Jayati Ghosh – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/GDN) Copenhagen, DENMARK, EUROPE: Nowadays almost everyone will probably acknowledge that growing inequality has become a pressing issue – even business leaders in Davos recently identified it as one of the biggest threats to the world economy. Now, discussions around the post-2015 global agenda include a specific focus on reducing [...]
Yves Daccord – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/ICRC) Geneva, SWITZERLAND: For more than a year now, the spiraling armed conflict in Syria and its devastating impact on people in and beyond the country has dominated the international spotlight, with still no end to the suffering in sight. While there are many other internecine conflicts causing immeasurable suffering, [...]
Alice Wellborn - WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/OD) London, UNITED KINGDOM: I have emerged from three inspiring days volunteering at a workshop discussing how to advance gender equity and human rights to reduce gender-based violence in the context of HIV. Yet the question still uppermost in all our minds is “but where is the funding to do this?” [...]
Claire Provost – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/GDN) London, U.K.: Held up for decades as something of a “miracle cure” for global poverty, microfinance became one of the world’s most high-profile and generously funded development interventions. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about how small loans could unlock endless opportunities for the world’s poorest people. By 2010, however, [...]
