Voluntourism and the unethical schemes of it´s agencies
Volunteering is popular with old and young, especially when it combines idealism and adventure. The need to do good became a business –...
Dear Rainbow - Nation
What are your kids supposed to think? Why are you doing the same mistake that was done so many times before and which you had to suffer...
Cheap Impact
One of the Millennium-Development-Goals was to provide all children with primary school education until the year 2015. Unfortunately this...
The decline of the Ring Parable
One of my favourite pieces from German Intensive Course in school is Lessings “Nathan the Wise”. In the plot Sultan Saladin asks Nathan...
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" vs war crimes
The United Nations adopted the convention against torture 60 years ago. In the year 2015 we read the “torture report” which documents the...
Slavery in Mauritania
Until now I connected the word “slavery” to old times. Apparently I was misguided, like so many others too. According to the United...