Recalling #MLK & US Civil Rights at UN
This week in 1963 was the culmination of a series of initiatives and marches across the US, “March on Washington,” which demanded access to voting and legal rights for all…
Tag Archives: #HumanRights
Reboot of #Development #Finance
From gender equality to sustainability, the key catalyst will be a new approach to development finance. Profit is not a dirty word and growth is not the overriding objective. Rather,…
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…
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…
International Women’s Day & Gender Equality
The world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March each year. It is a day to commemorate women and also a day to reflect on gender equality, assess where we…
UN Previews Film on Struggle for Education as Human Right
Education as a goal for all children versus the reality of the struggle for so many to realize this fundamental opportunity for a better life was the focus of a…
Failing Grade on Education?
If we are to raise education to a human right then the globe is failing 20% of its adolescents and at least 10% of children of primary school age according…
Sports Stars Beyond Caricature to Freedom of Expression
When Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) began his peaceful assault upon the walls of racism in America he was frequently joined by artists, who gave encouragement and visibility even…
Aung San Suu Kyi — Silence to Genocide?
Burma monk Saydaw Wirathu says to BBC that the “kalar“ (a derogatory term for Muslims) must be plucked out of society like a bad seed, regardless that they are part…