Monday, 22 March 2010

Corneille - Rwandan singer exorcises the past through music

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A friend sent me this beautiful song by Corneille or Cornelius Nyungura, a singer born in Germany to Rwandan parents, and now a Canadian...
Sunday, 14 March 2010

Haiti – After the Earthquake - Vulnerable populations need protection

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Haiti is no longer in the news, but the earthquake that devastated the country, killing more than 100,000 people and making more than mill...
Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Save the BBC - Avaaz' petition

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After attacks by the Murdoch media empire, the BBC is considering sweeping cuts, cutting its website in half and dropping TV and radio stati...
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...