Maryam Zar – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Los Angeles, California, U.S.. AMERICAS: We must eliminate violence against women. In fact, we must eliminate gender based violence all together and teach tolerance to a new generation that is tasked with solving some of humanity’s thorniest issues. The next generation will face food scarcity, water insecurity, repressive freedoms […]
Chantal Pierrat – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN) Boulder, Colorado, UNITED STATES, NORTH AMERICA: I always imagined what it would be like to have a daughter: pretty clothes, soft, fluffy things, pink ballet slippers. I imagined sharing all my womanly secrets with her and creating the most superwoman human being that ever lived. But instead I was graced […]
Deeyah Khan – WNN Features Commentary (WNN) London, UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE: As she outlines her life as a creative person, which includes her award winning work with music and film, producer and director Deeyah brings the power of expression through the arts into focus for activists and non-activists alike. “Where the media is controlled, […]
WNN Features (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: In a Pacifica Radio ‘Rewind’ recording Coretta Scott King, the new widow of black civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, spoke to the public in Central Park, New York City on April 27, 1968. It was a time that Mrs. King knew she had to […]
Aisha Habli for CGN – WNN Improve It (WNN/CGN) Beirut, LEBANON, WESTERN ASIA: The glow of the Arab Spring wore off in the media a while ago. Violence, internal division and widespread frustration have replaced the hopeful scenes of youth standing up to demand change. But have youth really stepped back from the front lines […]
Lys Anzia – WNN Religion & Belief (WNN) Dharamsala, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA: Standing on top of centuries of history within Tibetan Buddhism the Nobel Peace Laureate known privately as Tenzin Gyatso, and publicly as a monk called His Holiness The Dalai Lama, has once again voiced his controversial wishes that the next choice for the […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) UN New York, New York, UNITED STATES: At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for the UNCSW – UN Commission on the Status of Women conference on March 4, 2013, an important discussion that touches the very core of global society will take place. Since the 2013 new year the answers […]
Cynthia Arvide – WNN Features (WNN) Mexico City, MEXICO: In a charming and witty speech titled “Stories of Passion,” author Isabel Allende expressed her thoughts on the conflicts women face today worldwide after generations of human rights battles and the invention of the birth-control pill. Stories that bring ‘changing the world for the better’ into […]
Commentary by Salma Hasan Ali, contributing editor of “The Islamic Monthly.” (WNN Opinion) Washington, DC – Like millions, I’ve been mesmerised by humanitarian Greg Mortenson’s story of compassion, commitment and courage. Like so many, I am heartbroken by everything that I am reading about the current controversy. The accusations against Greg are serious and the […]
