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Leoshina Kariha is the first Youth Advocate appointed by UNICEF Papua New Guinea
Gender Equality Is A Human Right
Gender Equality plays a pivotal role in our society. Gender Equality is a human right. Women deserve to be treated equally. We live in a world where women still should fulfill the gender roles, women are paid less than men, and women still face obstacles (one of them being sexual harassment). So, that’s why, I always believe “Gender Equality” must be achieved. I’m well aware that it can’t be achieved overnight. It takes several steps to make it happen. The Experience of Mine I have a story to tell. It happened to me when I was in high school. My teacher assigned a project team. I was in a...
Mental Health Awareness: Its Significance and Impact on Teenagers
Mental health awareness has been the ‘talk’ up to this day, especially among the teenagers which you can see all over social media, raising awareness and educating people about this issue. This is a kind of illness that you cannot actually recognize in a glimpse— it is an internal crisis within a person that involves changing in emotion, way of thinking, and behavior. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), almost one in five U.S adults suffers from mental illness which is 52.9 million in 2020. It ranges from mild to moderate to severe. Anxiety, depression, trauma, eating...
Make them understand
Why are the people that advocate for mental health awareness when something tragic happens often the same ones that make you feel pathetic for bailing on your plans again? The same people that get mad at you for not talking to them, the ones that sigh and say 'I give up with you' when they catch you wallowing again? How are you supposed to 'open up' when those closest to you make you feel even worse than you did before? I would answer the former question(s) by arguing a lack of genuine knowledge and understanding or guidance on how to appropriately and usefully help those they see suffering...
World Obesity Day: Improving Food Environments for Young People in the UK
World Obesity Day: An Indian Plate At the Dinner Table
Gender-Equality: a Never-ending Journey.
A few days ago, the Social Studies class at my school talked about feminism. Based on my own experience, this topic hasn't been discussed much and truthfully, it intrigued me a lot. My teacher asked me to watch a film, and we were required to do a full-length worksheet in response to the said movie. The film talked about a figure named R. A. Kartini. For those who don't know, Kartini is a noblewoman, born to a Regent father in Jepara, a city located in the Central region of Java, Indonesia. She is regarded as one of Indonesia's first and most well-known feminist icon, founder of one of the...
IS IWD important to you? Why?
International Women's Day
International Women's Day and Women with Disabilities
International Women's Day as a young woman with a disability
Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow
Respect young people
Yesterday, one of my Bengali literature teachers said something that left a mark in my heart, and I couldn’t agree more. He said that adults choose the safe side, when young people want the justice. I will add some more to his statement. Adults don’t want to take risks, but young people aren’t afraid to take risks and they want to experiment. That's why young people find ways in times when adults don’t. Young people lack maturity and sometimes judgement. Adults must guide them and teach them. They need to correct their mistakes. Young people need their supervision. But, adults try to control...
Bihari: A long lived prejudice turning into xenophobia
अबे तू बिहारी है क्या? This is the story of a East Indian state with a great cultural and political heritage, presently struggling for its lost identity due to the lack of socio-economic and infrastructural development as compared to other Indian states since independence. Yes ladies and gentlemen presenting before you a problem less discussed but constantly experienced by us. The prejudice of being a BIHARI. The human brain is the most advanced and complex thing in this universe. Dopamine is a hormone which regulates the brains functions, makes it react over a particular stimuli...
Enable Internet Use by Persons with Disabilities
Reimagine a better world: "kind is kind, not an option"
When I was 17, I made a video telling my hopes for this world. I want to see and feel more kindness and respect from people towards other people as well as to all creatures on this earth. I want more people who are aware of the important things that must be our particular concern and must be discussed together in order to achieve the world we aspire to. However, now I am 21 years old. For about 3 years from the video I made, I went through various valuable events and lessons in life. In addition, I practice critical thinking and thinking about the possibilities and impossibility that occurs in...
Have you joined the girlFORCE?
Reparations for the emancipated kings and queens
Generations of races, That went through lines of changes, to bring riches to the blameless. The people call it reparation, but they get paid for suffering, don’t they know our pain? Why doesn’t my race get paid? We barely even get paid the same. The folks who set the bar, Left us to build it. This country still isn't stable, Because we’re still building. African Americans, so-called “Blacks”, in the line of payment, we’re always last. Does the government even react that fast? Considering some obvious and certain facts, history’s important events have led us on this track. The Japanese...