At the beginning of October, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first person to receive the Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child and the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. Yousafzai, a children’s rights activist and journalist, became famous in October … Continue reading
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Food Insecurity in the Sahel
Food insecurity has been a persistent problem in the transition zone from the Saharan Desert to the African Savanna, commonly known as the Sahel region, since the food crisis in 2005. This is not only a problem of environmental circumstances due to droughts or destructive land use practices, but also an issue pointing to shortcomings … Continue reading
Aid May Harm Typhoon Haiyan Recovery Efforts
The twenty-first century has been marked by countless natural disasters. Just to name a few – a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northeastern Japan in 2011, severe monsoon flooding that affected 17.2 million in northwestern Pakistan in 2010, and a cyclone that killed as many as 100,000 in Burma in 2008. According to the … Continue reading
Ignorance in Guns and Aid
NICOLE SAWIN “‘All of this is for you. We die for nothing.’” Samantha Nutt, a professor at the University of Toronto, one of Canada’s 25 leading activists named by the Globe and Mail, and both founder and Executive Director of the international humanitarian organization, War Child, said this quote to the gathered students in Rutherford … Continue reading
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