Dear youth, act now, not tomorrow.The global population of youth, as of October 2016, stands at 1.8B, the highest number ever recorded with the majority of them hailing from developing countries. Currently, youth around the globe are dealing with problems like unemployment, illiteracy, political exploitation, health issues like HIV & AIDS, and absence in the decision-making arenas. With all these challenges, it might seem that young people in many parts of the world lose motivation to addres...

JOINTLY WRITTEN BY ME, LINH AND JEANPeople would always tell me that I resembled my mother --- we both had brown, curly hair, deep, brown eyes, and a tall build. I was always proud of the fact that I did, in some ways, look like my mother. I felt that our resemblance connected us in a way that could not be described by words. It was an invisible bond that could only be shared between mother and daughter.I was 11 when my parents dropped the bombshell --- I was adopted. I could not believe what I...

Today, we live in a world where everything is digital. I typed this blog post on a digital device and most likely, you are reading it on one. Digital and electronic devices have been integrated into our environments in such a way that we barely take notice.The world today texts more than ever, and given the fact that people are extremely busy and continuously running out of time, it not unnatural to come across various forms of abbreviations that are used while communicating to instant messaging...

Global Warming. We know it’s happening, but we seem to neglect it. The chlorofluorocarbons in the smoke of our factories, and those poisonous gases released because of burning of trash, decimate our ozone layer. Therefore, less heat is absorbed and the planet heats up.We all know that the Arctic ice is melting, yet we don’t seem to be bothered. Species like Polar Bears and Siberian Tigers are going extinct due to the melting of their icy climate. We are the ones to blame. Our descendants may not...

From ancient times inequality had been visible in our society. It can be based on various factors like financial status, gender, caste status, etc... This inequality can also be seen in animals, who leave their weak children behind.But today, what I am going to talk about is gender inequality. In India, where I am from, there are laws present to prevent gender inequality, caste inequality, financial inequality, etc... But like every other law, these laws are not properly followed. But this is on...

I woke up to Twitter yesterday to many tweets on #MeToo from people I know, and all of them were sharing their assault stories.The #MeToo movement was started by actress Alyssa Milano, and the #MeToo hashtag has been used over 200,00 times, according to the BBC. It also went viral on other social media, like Facebook and Instagram.People have used it as a social microphone to voice their sexual harassment stories, rape stories, stories about cat calls and violence at work, and even abuse stories...

I’m Italian and in the past few months I’ve been rather proud of the way my country was welcoming refugees and migrants whose journeys in the hands of smugglers ended in proximity of the Sicilian coast.However recently our welcome seems to have decreased, along with the European Union’s agreement with Turkey to prevent refugees and migrants from entering the EU.Moreover, some politicians are addressing this issue, not by explaining to the people the desperate conditions of those escaping from wa...

Is there a lot of stigma surrounding periods in your community?Do most girls know about what’s happening to them when they get their first period? Are they embarrassed?What about the boys? Are they supportive? Do they really know what happens during menstruation?All around the word, there is still so much misconception and stigma when it comes to periods. But in Ethiopia, this is slowly starting to change.Eleni (14) and Kinfe (13) both attend Dangelo Primary School in Ethiopia and they’re both m...