Can UN Cite #CharlestonShooting as “Hateful Act”?
The US is beacon for tolerance and the rule of law, but it is also increasingly facing scrutiny as to whether the reality lives up to the rhetoric. Let’s be…
Category Archives: Global Citizen
UN Photo Contest on #whyspacematters
The photo does not have to be taken from space, but it should reflect why space is important for mankind. That is the theme of a photo contest by the…
Why Girl’s Education Matters?
Education creates opportunity but also the choice for global citizens to access their rights, from political to economic to social. For this reason, it is in particularly critical for girls…
“Let There Be Bread”
Pope Francis addressed the delegates at the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference in Rome this week and cited eradicating hunger as a moral obligation. Food security, good nutrition,…
Education Is a Human Right
“The terrorists know this. That is why they keep attacking schools, like in Garissa, Kenya and Peshawar, Pakistan. They target girls with books, like Malala Yousafzai and her friends…
Indigenous Peoples Seeking Rights
They are white, black, brown and yellow and have been the first inhabitants in lands on all the world’s continents, (except Antarctica.) Indigenous peoples, from the Aborigines to Native Americans…
New Yorkers Take to the Streets to Promote AIDS Awareness
This Sunday, 17 May, is the 30 Year Anniversary of AIDS Walk New York. Despite advances in education and drug treatments there are still greater than 50,000 new infections…
Smuggled Rohingya Found Dead in Thai Trafficking Camp
The plight and destiny for the Muslim Rohingya of Myanmar (Burma) has been the source of condemnation by human rights authorities. Denied rights of citizenship, basic medical, educational, and economic…
Hate Speech or Free Speech on Migrants in UK Press?
The anti-immigration movement in Britain has parlayed fear and reality of continued migration into substantial political power in effective alliance with an ever more xenophobic media. Of course this is…
Earth Day Concert in Washington
As Washington goes so goes the world. And this weekend ahead of Earth Day on April 22, citizens – global or US or both – gathered at the National Mall…