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
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
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.
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.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.
I've gotten dangerously close to the line by talking policy with politicians, by making direct appeals to readers to act. But lives are on the line.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
The degree to which these people were willing to share the little they had, did make me feel rather guilty about not doing more for them.
If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program.