Tuesday, 23 February 2010

The Bleeding Wound of Nepal: sex trafficking

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This is a story I am researching and hope to be able to cover on location: Draped along the spine of the Himalayas, Nepal is a land of subli...
Monday, 15 February 2010

Maggie, the Gypsy Queen - preserving Gypsy culture

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Depending on whom you ask, Maggie Smith-Bendell is a grandmother from hell or a tireless campaigner for Gypsy rights. For the past decade, t...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Know someone over 60 who is changing the world?

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I’ve just received this request and it sounds interesting and it's great to see older people being celebrated, so I am passing it around...
Thursday, 14 January 2010

Haiti Earthquake

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What is it with Haiti? Things were starting to get a bit better there: the country was slowly recovering from devastating floods in 2004 a...
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Iran – Release Mourning Mothers!

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Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of women who were beaten and arrested during a peace...
Friday, 18 December 2009

Copenhagen – the pressure is working

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To follow up on my previous post: yesterday, the media was calling the crucial Copenhagen climate summit dead on arrival. But 24 hour...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Save Copenhagen - last-ditch effort to save the summit

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With just three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit to stop global warming is failing; only massive public pressure can save it. Th...