By: Diana Skelton (France) “The fact that they were illiterate was helpful, too, because they couldn’t read the newspapers. If they were not, as things moved on they might have been reading newspapers and seen what was going on.” —Dr. Sidney Olansky, one of the directors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, speaking about the lies…
by Mary Rudge (United States) It is my home. In it is everything I own. I have no one to turn to, I need something to return to, It’s my cart. On the sidewalk I’m alone I sleep beside it, care for what’s inside it. Nothing a thief would choose, I’m sure yet I’m more…
Fatimata reveals through her testimony her active participation in her community. People who have known poverty can better describe the humiliations as well as the courage of parents and children in overcoming poverty. Her words were brought to the UN through different steps, different places, from Ouagadougou (on the occasion of the seminar “The poorest…
By: Fabio Palacio (United States) We measure the sustainability of development with various indicators that do not mean much to a regular citizen working outside the field. Environmental sustainability can be measured in carbon emissions; social sustainability can be measured with a GINI coefficient; economic sustainability can be measured in growth or size of deficits.…
Together in Dignity 