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"Actions in Spotlight has encouraged me to learn more about why these inequalities exist and how society can resolve them through the implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals."

"Actions encourages other young people to learn more and speak out for the causes they support; our voices will be heard."

Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals

May 2019

THE ESSENCE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

When I was little, my teachers taught my peers and me skills like adding and subtracting, reading and writing. They also taught us other skills like sharing with each other, talking about our problems, and negotiating solutions. These are basic principles...

By Georgia Bernbaum

May 2019

Nonfiction in response to Partnerships for the Goals

PARTNERING WITH SCHOOLS

To achieve all 16 goals, the United Nations put forth the 17th goal which encourages collaboration between public and private sector to achieve the goals.Schools, public or private, play an important role to help achieve this 17th goal. They should prepare the future...

By Grace Muresan

Poem in response to Reduced Inequalities

October 2018

Rainbow Banner

By Grace Muresan

CC Image Credit Courtesy of Ted Eytan

People always say the thing about being in love

Is that no matter who it’s with it will be blessed from above.

Yet another thing that people tend to say

Is that sinful love is being gay.

A rainbow banner, held to the sky,

In a crowd of people, with spirits high,

To a rainbow flag held in the heart

Of one who’s blood relative has told them to depart.

Since forever, the beginning of time,

Homosexuals have been treated like slime.

Back in England, 1952,

Alan Turing got a cyanide brew.

Because he was gay, he could only choose

Between going to jail or getting hormonal abuse.

I don’t understand why it matters so much

Whether you love the same sex or another as such

What matters is that there is equal love and joy

Whether you’re with a girl or a boy.