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
...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.
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.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction