The UN Climate Summit, COP26, recently came to an end in Glasgow, and with it was the future compromise of nearly 200 countries to hold more meetings. Global North countries acknowledged their moral and legal obligation to help more at-risk countries, particularly those already seeing climate damage. Many key countries’
I believe that we all have a responsibility to leave our planet better than we found it, to continuously improve and strive to be better. However, I am constantly feeling like whatever I do in my life to help combat the effects of climate change will never be enough. And
New Zealand is being failed by our mental health systems. These systems have been failing us in a steady decline for many years, leading up to the current Labour-led government. In this opinion piece, I will be discussing why it has been failing, why and how Labour needs to step
Ko Ora, Ka Ako, is New Zealand’s healthy school lunches program designed to reduce food insecurity by providing nutritious school lunches to children every day. As of March 2021, over eight million lunches were served in 542 schools, to over 132,600 learners. In 2019, the government announced a two-year program, to
According to Al Jazeera, the forced closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be a humanitarian and cultural catastrophe. “We call it a camp, but it’s really a city,” Tayyar Sukru Cansizoglu, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Head of Sub-Office Kakuma, told the OFID Quarterly. Kakuma Camp is
New Zealand has decided that it will pull its last troops out of Afghanistan in May of 2021, which will mark the end of the deployment that spanned over 2 decades. Essentially, Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand prime minister, stated that the NZ army forces were no longer required in
In my last two articles about child labour, I discussed the direct impacts on the children, their education and their families/communities of our consumption of child labour made goods. Additionally, I talked about the impact on their economies and how challenging it is to break the intergenerational poverty persistence cycle.
Child labour is simultaneously the cause and the consequence of the lack of economic growth in developing countries. Putting children to work delays economic development, and without economic development, more children find themselves put to work. This creates a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty. The poverty cycle and inability to receive
Child labour is a terrible issue and its existence is common knowledge worldwide. Unfortunately, we are not all completely aware of which industries actually exploit children and which goods specifically are made by the hands of children. What is child labour? The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines child labour specifically,
As a country, New Zealand is always willing and wanting to help its neighbours during a crisis. It is what we do, and always have. However, our actions have a possibility of causing long-term damage and we must be more aware that our actions do not actually have a negative
New Zealand is one of the first countries to successfully eliminate COVID-19 entirely from its population, this is a substantial milestone in the worlds’ fight against the pandemic. Because of this, it has been recognised through the global media and they have been celebrating with us as we commemorate our
In February, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his Middle East plan that had been in negotiations for a long time. This was, however, done without the input and approval of the Palestinians, who in 2018 ended their relationship with the Trump Administration after the recognition of Jerusalem as the “undivided
Whether you agree with her policies as a Labour Government or not, you absolutely cannot deny that Jacinda Ardern loves her country. She has shown that she will do anything to protect our people, our land, our economy and our rights through challenging times and in everyday life. The last
After over a year in the making, there is now an agreement to begin the end of the United States’ longest war in history, but there is still a very long way to go. Recently, the U.S. signed a deal with the Afghanistan Taliban in Doha, Qatar that will be
Currently, more than 2000 people have been infected over the globe, with at least 259 deaths in China already, which are still continuing to rise daily. The Coronavirus is on the move very rapidly and is not slowing down which puts China in a public health crisis. The mysterious disease
I have always been a firm believer that you should help others where you can give. Giving and volunteering are and have always been key ways to do this. But can volunteering be negative in societies? Voluntourism is an up and coming trend out of the eco-tourism movement. It is
The most recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 was the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. He assumed office in April 2018 after months of anti-government protests that forced the previous Prime Minister to step down. Since being elected, he has introduced a lot of liberalizing reforms in
In a world full of sadness, war, and struggle it can often be a challenge to see the good that we as humans also do. 2019 and a whole decade has come to an end, so I thought we should reflect on some of the amazing things we have done
A recent shelling on Tuesday has killed over 24 and wounded over 40 civilians by airstrike and artillery fire in Syria’s province of Idlib. Idlib is one of the last major regions being held by rebel fighters and Jihadists opposed to the President Bashar al-Assad. The bombing was executed by
U.S. intelligent services have recently reported that they have been tracking the movement of Iranian missiles being moved into Iraqi locations over the last year. They are believed to be taking advantage of the protests and political unrest in Iraq to do so. In Iraq people are currently protesting against
