Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Saving the Rospuda Valley

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Małgorzata Górska / Credit: John Antonelli Last week, I’ve interviewed Malgorzata Górska, a Polish environmentalist who managed to s...
Thursday, 22 April 2010

DRC - hasty UN peacekeepers' withdrawal puts women in danger

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From the statistics in my last posting – about 160 women raped every week in the Kivu provinces and more than 8000 cases of rapes reported...
Monday, 19 April 2010

Ruined - Finding Mother Courage in DRC

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Photo Hugo Glendinning I went to see the European premiere of Ruined by American playwright Lynn Nottage at the Almeida ...
Sunday, 4 April 2010

The World Most Dangerous Place for Women – Sexual terrorism in the DRC

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I’ve watched “The World’s Most Dangerous Place for Women” a couple of days ago and cannot shake it from my mind. It left me deeply mo...
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...