Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN Breaking (WNN) Port-au-Prince, HAITI, AMERICAS – CARIBBEAN: New insights are coming in with the fight to stop cholera in Haiti says PLOS – Public Library of Science, a consortium of global experts on science and health. Even after consorted efforts to block the spread of the disease in Haiti following the January 2009 earthquake [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) United Nations, New York, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The United Nations is gearing up campaign in a push for greater worldwide education as they get ready for a July 12 appearance with education rights advocate Malala Yousafzai at the UN. Named by TIME magazine as one of the “most influential people [...]
Nini Gurung for UNHCR – WNN Breaking (WNN/UNHCR) Damak, NEPAL, SOUTH ASIA: Seventy-nine-year-old Keshar Singh Rai vividly remembers the day he started his life as a refugee. It was August 1992, when he came to Nepal from Bhutan with his wife Bhai Maya Rai and their three sons. “Before leaving Bhutan we were in the [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Denver, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: When U.S. President Calvin Coolidge urged all State regions to recognize Father’s Day in 1924, many men at the beginning viewed the day with disdain. It wasn’t until 1972, under U.S. President Richard Nixon, that Father’s Day ‘officially’ and finally was recognized as a federal holiday. Today [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) New York, New York, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Speaking out today against the U.S. government’s decision to send military arms support to Syrian opposition forces, MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization with an office in New York city, spoke out today to oppose what the U.S. president Barack Obama has coined in [...]
