Mar 09
If I asked someone “who was a victim of slavery in the 1800s?” and “who suffered at the hands of the Nazi’s during the Holocaust?” the most likely answers would be African-Americans and members of the Jewish community, respectively. What most people do not know is that there is a group who lived through both …
Mar 07
National Girls and Women in Sports Day was held last month on February 1st, forty years after the passage of Title IX. For the past 26 years, people across the country have celebrated NGWSD and strengthened Title IX’s declaration, that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from …
Mar 05
About every three days it becomes necessary to take out the trash in my roommates’ and my kitchen. And on this trip down the hall, we take our brown paper grocery bag full of recyclables. We diligently separate out our plastics, making sure we do our small part to contribute to the recycling movement. However, …
Mar 02
It’s no surprise that over the past few months, gasoline prices have been skyrocketing. Today’s national average price for a gallon of gasoline is $3.73, quickly approaching the highest recorded average price of $4.11. One issue that seems to be a recurring topic in this discussion is the decision to postpone the construction of the …
Mar 02
The world’s largest refugee camp turns 20 years-old this week. The Dadaab in Kenya welcomes approximately 1,300 refugees a day and is currently a haven to almost half-a-million people escaping war-torn neighboring countries like Somalia. Originally designed with a capacity to hold 90,000, Dadaab, located about 60 miles from the Kenya-Somalia border was only meant …
Mar 02
Read this post in English ¿Cómo influyen las campañas políticas en la participación electoral? Durante períodos electorales, el ciudadano promedio es incitado a votar y a tomar una decisión política. Los medios de comunicación y el gobierno nos animan a votar. Dicen: “Sin voto no hay voz”. A mi parecer, los medios de comunicación y …
Mar 01
Quite a few posts have been written here at NotEnoughGood about the UN millennium development goals (MDGs), but this post is a bit different. I’m not going to describe the goals or how they came to be or the latest UN meeting—you can click through the archives or do a quick Google search for that. …
Mar 01
Read this post in English. La semana pasada, de una manera media esporádica, decidí que me voy a Dharamsala, India en junio (lo pueden llamar un regalo de graduación para mi misma). Para que todos sepa, Dharamsala se encuentra al norte de la India por el Himalaya y al sur del Tíbet. Además del voluntariado …
Feb 29
Women in the United States have come a long way since the 1800s. From being granted voting rights, to the creation of Planned Parenthood and approval of birth control, to the equal pay act, women have covered a lot of ground on the road toward equality. However, there are still some grey areas where women …
