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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
What we’re reading: food waste; famines; The Sustainability Development Goals; the two Bills and Bono
Shocking statistic of the week: Consumers in rich countries dispose of 220 million metric tons of food waste every year, equal to the entire food
Infographic: Ten ways to stop wasting water
Link to full size Every Drop Counts infographic (2011) When was the last time you counted every drop of water you use on an average
The sharp end of a global food system
Drought and famine are not extreme events. They are not anomalies. They are merely the sharp end of a global food system that is built
Johnny Mad Dog brings child soldiers to the big screen
I can’t leave my weapon. My weapon is my mother and father Johnny Mad Dog is a French/Liberian movie, based on the 2002 novel Johnny