Annually the world spends over one trillion US dollars a year on military operations and weaponry. Some governments spend more on their military than on social development, communications infrastructure and health combined. This spending fuels conflicts around the world and affects millions of people by creating poverty and causing injuries and death. But there are a lot of people and organisations around the world fighting for change and working for peace. You can learn more about them here.
From a series of writing workshops, 4 young New Zealanders capture what it was like for them in the middle of violent conflict; and what their life is now like in a completely new place.
Stolen Innocence - Rescuing Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers
This year on April 25, in a hundred cities and ten countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand, thousands of young people staged a ‘rescue’ to bring attention to the tragedies affecting children in Uganda.
Global Countdown: Take action!
We want to do something about the issues we are facing, so check out our ideas for taking action!
Global countdown: Global meltdown?!
Global countdown, global Meltdown - William Zhang sums up the big issues facing our world as 2009 unfolds.
Positive People- Overcoming Prejudice
A ten year old girl sits trembling in a clinic after her tests, clutching her mother’s hand. The girl is distressed, but cannot understand what’s going on. All she can grasp is one word- “positive.”