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
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.
In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
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.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Recently President Bush struck down the Sudan Accountability Act, which would hold accountable those who perpetrated these atrocities.
If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program.
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.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
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.
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.
You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing.