Although we have to set individuals and groups free to engineer their future and to herald their exceptionality, we should also work on our shared meanings and communication about the past.

Images of desperate people on the move have blinded Westerners, in particular, to the fact that people have always moved, and that migration is necessary and beneficial for human development.

We talk a lot that we need ‘national consensus.’ Unfortunately, we assume that it is about a lot of talking than listening and understanding. 

The fundamental principle of justice is measured by how it treats the vulnerable, its poor, uneducated, the elderly, the children, and fundamentally its accused, given the fundamental right of every one to be presumed innocent, writes Sisay Woldemichael.

Through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other global agreements, governments around the world have committed to tackling the epidemics of tuberculosis and noncommunicable diseases by 2030.

Media institutions should assign top level media leaders with excellent professional journalism backgrounds. Professional incompetence of leaders at the top would bring lack of trust and excessive pressure on journalists who are committed to their professional principles.

The drafting of Proclamation no 1070/2018, the Revised Family Code (Amendment) Proclamation, was poor. The real intention of the Ministry has not been well addressed in it.

The media, as part of influential social institutions, should focus on individual rights and responsibilities to affirm that individuals are independent beings with capabilities that can transcend the power of their respective groups; and to indicate that individuals are the baseline for the existence of groups and group rights, writes Kibrom Berhane.

In the 1980s, big oil companies carried out internal assessments of how their products' emissions might affect the planet.