Katie Hunter | On 1st October 2015, tragedy struck again in America with another mass shooting. These types of shootings have increased significantly in the last 10 years with most of these occurring at places of education or business.
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A Personal Experience With The Migrant Crisis
Ruaraidh Gilmour | World Editor This summer I went on holiday to a small island close to Rhodes, Halki. It has a population of 400 and like Greece it has been struggling with the economic crisis the country has recently been undergoing. In extreme cases some islanders have had to leave in search of work on neighbouring Rhodes.
Development Goals 2015: Can They Be Achieved?
Robbie Greenshields | On September 25, 193 world leaders from the United Nations agreed to 17 global development goals that should be achieved by the year 2030. The goals, which include the eradication of poverty and conservation of wildlife on land and sea, might seem farfetched and unachievable to some, but if you look at the way the United Nations has effectively dealt with similar issues
How to Save the World
Daniel Everett | The United Nations met between the 25th and 27th of September in order to establish sustainable development goals (SDG’s), which will replace the outdated millennium development goals (MDG’s) established in 2000. Ban Ki Moon, the UN secretary general, stated in his address on Friday, ‘the new agenda is a promise by leaders to all people everywhere. It is a universal, integrated and transformative
Food for Thought
Erin Brown | Editor-in-Chief With more and more people resorting to food banks as a means to feed themselves and their family, we ask why they should have to.
From Syria to Munich, Jordan, Istanbul?
Ruaraidh Gilmour | World Editor Two weeks after Germany pledged to offer refuge to as many Syrian migrants as possible, there have been great acts of kindness made from Europeans citizens showing their desire to help the migrants from Syria; football fans holding banners with similar phrases to “Refugees welcome”, “Migrants welcome,” to German children handing child migrants sweets as they came off trains to a
Miracle Baby Defies Odds
Bianca Ruba | Opinion and Faith Editor A baby who was born at just 23 weeks and given only a 1% chance of survival has confounded doctors by reaching eight months as a healthy baby. Kaci-Rose Cratchley was delivered in an emergency natural birth, weighing just 1lb and 2oz – half the weight of a bag of sugar!
The “F” Word
Stephanie English | For many years, I misunderstood the meaning of feminism. I believed it to mean disgruntled or angry women against all men. However, on 20 September last year, Emma Watson made a speech at the United Nations Headquarters, launching a campaign called “HeForShe” which clarified the true meaning of feminism: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is
