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International Women’s Day 2012
Today is the 101st International Women’s Day! First emerging as a day of celebration from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the
10 best female pioneers?
image: We Can Do It poster by Howard J. Miller (1943) Yesterday UK newspaper The Observer updated its The 10 Best… series by launching the
Activism in music – remarks from President Michael D. Higgins
Music is the international language, the bridge builder and the barrier breaker. Last weekend Irish President Michael D. Higgins appeared at The Music Show in
Is Capitalism bankrupt?
It would take 4.4 earths for there to be enough for everybody to consume as much as the average American. ‘Counting the Cost,’ a news
Shuga: Love, Sex, Money
Shuga – an MTV production in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners, including the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – is a
World Press Photos of the Year 2012
World Press Photo of the Year 2011, Samuel Aranda A woman holds her wounded son in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital
The Zambian Chipolopolo Boys win for Africa
Photo source: Truly Zambian The story of the weekend goes to Zambia: the once written-off underdog of African football – the Chipolopolo Boys** or Copper
2011 and the new human rights movement
Amnesty International’s A Year of Rebellion, A Year of Hope film (2012) For many people, the world was transfixed on only one place last year:
Charles Dickens: the social justice campaigner
Charles Dickens was a masterful storyteller of social problems of his day who challenged Victorian aristocracy and elites to journey into workhouses and slums through his novels
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
No ethnical defence can be made for preserving a cultural practice that damages women’s health and interferes with their sexuality Nahld Toubia MD (a physician