Children and Family: An Important Relationship

To start with this blog, I would like to bring up a thought of Virginia Satir that says: “Feelings of worth can only flourish in an environment where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open and rules are flexible, the kind of environment found in a loving family”. This introductory phrase is […]

Solidarity by Heart: The Child Ryan Oram and the World’s Rush

Who has not heard of the Moroccan child Ryan Oram, who fell into the well? Who did not grieve for him and feel the pain of losing him with his family? This was the state of the world about two weeks ago. We were all worried about the Moroccan child Ryan fell into the well, […]

Priority of Persons and the Right to Privacy

Under the highly contentious case of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court used the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to rule abortion as a form of ‘right to privacy.’ However, the Court also determined two “compelling state interests” that could override the women’s ‘right to privacy,’ that being “preservation and protection […]

Reflecting on my Grandparents’ Final Days

My paternal grandfather died on the 24th of March, 2021 after a four-year battle with bone marrow cancer. Though his passing felt rather sudden, it had by then been a long time coming. The preceding four years were an alternating series of despair and hope. Every moment when he seemed to be right at death’s […]

WYA Europe Welcomes First Batch of Interns for 2022

For the first period of 2022, both regional office – WYA Europe and subregional office – WYA Southeast Europe receives representatives from Poland, Spain, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The internship program will give our 4 interns the opportunity to promote human dignity through the enrichment of their professional skills in marketing and project management.   […]

The Evolving Trend of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide goes directly against the concept of human dignity.  The history of euthanasia is a lengthy one. Dating back to classical antiquity (5th century B.C. to 1st century B.C.) the ancient Greeks and Romans would frequently practice “mercy killings.” Although Hippocrates, widely accepted author of the Hippocratic Oath, had […]

Human Dignity and the Global Coffee Industry 

Robusta, Arabica, Hawaiian Kona, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Philippine Liberica, Indonesian Sumatra Mandheling, Tanzanian Peaberry…the list of varieties of this ubiquitous caffeinated delicacy goes on and on.  The simple delight of enjoying a cup of coffee is a largely universal experience with over 1 billion daily consumers around the world. In the United States alone, 64% of […]

A Misinterpretation of Liberalism

[su_tabs active=”2″][su_tab title=”English”] Liberalism is noble, you just have to understand it to know how to take advantage of it. First, I will explain how people today misunderstand liberalism. For this I will use the concept of relativism. In what follows, I will try to diagram the proper way of understanding liberalism. Finally, I will […]

The Richness of My Nomadic Tradition

On the flight from Beijing to Ulan Bator, I was intrigued by a page in the magazine about a personal narrative of Sainkho Namtchylak, who uses traditional Mongolian throat-singing technique to introduce Shamanistic ideas about peace and harmony to the world. I closed the magazine, and was eager to embrace whatever came from the place […]