The chains of slavery and gender-based violence run deep, they are tied to all forms struggle including poverty and armed conflict. However this is not something that just plagues developing countries, it is a scourge that is found in every American city and the key to breaking the cycle is through sustainable empowerment programs. Therefore […]
Free market principles have failed the one sixth of the world’s population that continue to live in abject poverty. The idea that economic growth will somehow magically lift those individuals out from their poverty has proven a failure. Every day, an average of 27000 children die from lack of food and access to basic medical care […]
The last week and a half has brought with it all the trials and tribulations of modern conveniences and technology. First a complete phone malfunction, then our web server appeared with some hitches and glitches, then to top it off my laptop got a virus which just seems irremovable for any point of time longer […]
Enjoy Poverty is a disturbing 80 minute film that attempts to expose and lay bare the inherent viciousness of poverty’s status quo. It draws parallels between the economics of poverty and the psychology of western consumption and aid. It attempts to symbolize the perversity of our own societies, the dramas and the obscure fascination we have with death. […]
There are many things that are wrong with the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. For one, how do Tyra Banks and Jim Cramer qualify as White House correspondents? Comedian Wanda Sykes hosted this year’s schmoozing extravaganza. She had her moments but adopted some of the tactics of Rush Limbaugh, whose kidneys she had wished to […]
There is something terribly disturbing about it all. Since 2003, the US has imprisoned 43,000 people seeking asylum. The Department of Homeland Security has increased immigration detention beds by 78% says Human Rights First. Jailed in Texas. Why does that not seem surprising? A teacher who fled the persecution and beatings in Burma arrived in […]
“It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta Over a billion people across the globe live on less than a dollar a day, placing them in extreme poverty. Moderate poverty is defined as those living, on $1 to $2 a […]
Last year when I walked through the urban centre of Tbilisi I was struck by the vibrancy of its people. It’s a rare feeling, an energy that permeates through all senses. This was a month before the war broke out. It was hard to believe that refugees would soon be flooding this cultural oasis – […]
The following was originally published by the author on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, on the Examiner, in a follow-up to the piece posted Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, The United States and The Rights of the Child, the debate on the United States has heated-up once again. US opponents of the UN Convention on the Rights […]
The Lebanese are told to kiss their kiss on the cheek greeting goodbye. As Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh put it, “If you visit someone, don’t exchange kisses… Let’s stop the social kissing habit.” The Egyptian government takes U.N.’s “it has nothing to do with pigs” advice to heart by ordering the slaughter of all of […]
The past week has seen an armada of reports on President Obama’s first 100 days in office. Nicholas Kristof has this brief, but challenging column, suggesting in light of the myriad global crises, the Administration has not done enough about Darfur. Meanwhile, Kevin Heller notes that at least one African leader is finally starting to […]
So often the world sits idly by, watching ethnic conflicts flare up, as if these were mere entertainment rather than human beings whose lives are being destroyed. Shouldn’t the existence of even one single refugee be a cause for alarm throughout the world? – Urkhan Alakbarov (Azerbaijani geneticist, Professor and contributor to a number of […]
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