Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristofis an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001, and The Washington Post says that he "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 April 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
Random violence is incredibly infectious
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.