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Entries by Mariah Griffin-Angus from 06/2012

In Uganda, Unemployment Comes at a High Price

| Posted 06.04.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Uganda Youth Network, Canada, Uganda, Unemployment, Youth, Yci, Cida, Canada Business News

What's the price of unemployment? In the case of Uganda which has the highest completion rate of primary school education in Africa, but where youth unemployment is at 80 per cent, many Ugandas pay the price of death. Just ask the family of Justine Nalugya who committed suicide in March because she didn't have a job.

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Ugandans Are Sticking it To the Man For Women's Rights

| Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Cida, Uganda Youth Network, Canada, Youth-Challenge-International, Uganda, Sexual Assault, Mona Eltahawy, Ingrid Turinawe, Sexual Assault Uganda, Canada Politics News

People were shocked by the photographs that show Ugandan police brutally grabbing Ingrid Turinawe's breasts as she cried out in pain. Sexual assault is a public taboo in this deeply conservative country. However, the very public and sexualized nature of the attack on Turinawe seems to have been a defining moment for the women's movement of Uganda.

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There's Nothing "Extremist" About Banning Plastic Bags

| Posted 06.18.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Uganda, Yci, Uganda Youth Network, Plastic Bags, Rob Ford, Plastic Bag Ban, Plastic Rob Ford, Rob Ford Plastic Bag Ban, Toronto Plastic Bag Ban, Aret Wente, Plastic Bag Ban Toronto, Rob Ford Plastic, Plastic Bag Ban Rob Ford, Canada Business News

Recently, Toronto City Council did something that Mayor Rob Ford deemed "ludicrous and dangerous": They banned plastic bags. Yet, while commentators such as the Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente decried the ban as the "new puritan cause," African countries have been out front on this issue for years.

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Why Sending Your Old Clothes to Africa Doesn't Help

| Posted 06.25.2012 | Canada
Read More: Cida, Uganda, Poverty, Charity, Yci, Trade, Youth Challenge International, Uganda Youth Network, Canada, Textiles, Carleton University, Philanthropy, Africa Charity, Charity Work, Canada News

Aid and development are deeply complex and there are no easy answers. The physical donations of goods, be it food or clothes, often have negative impacts on the local economy. It would be far better for aid organizations to buy products locally. Aid shouldn't be about making North Americans comfortable with a culture of mass consumption and waste. It has to be actually making the lives of people in the recipient country better.

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