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Food 4thought – what does child poverty mean to you?
4thought.tv is Channel 4’s daily moral and ethics opinion show and is on every day after the news. 4thought.tv states that it is about sharing
Chibundu Onuzo and the Spider King’s Daughter
20 year old Nigerian Chibundu Onuzo is currently in her final year in King’s College London studying history. Not only is she busy writing essays,
Celebrating 50 years of Frantz Fanon
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. Black Skin, White Masks (1952) 50 years after the death of Frantz
Review of the White Paper on Irish Aid
“Every day you are helping the world’s poorest people” opens the summary of the Government White paper on Irish Aid. Irish Aid is the ‘Government
Top 10 HIV-related stories making headlines in 2011
IRIN news recently published the 10 top popular stories that appeared throughout 2011 as they relate to HIV and AIDS: 1. HIV and AIDS turned
Cocoa with a conscience
In 2007, Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake asked photographer James Mollison to contribute to an exhibition on Chocolate that he was curating with Japanese industrial
Good news from Africa
It’s that time of the year again when news desks review the previous 12 months highlighting what is deemed important and newsworthy. And, as with
A bad year for bad guys
2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with the ‘Arab Spring’ and spreading across many parts of the world. How did this resistance
Time Person of the Year: The Protestor
No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would
Paying the bills and taking from their tills: pitching development in an age of austerity
21st Century Development animation that accompanied Bill Gate’s speech By Gentleman Scholar and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Last month Bill Gates delivered a