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Solar Demi lights up homes in the Philippines with waste plastic bottles

A recent innovation in the Philippines has brought waste plastic bottles into the spotlight. American university students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in conjunction

Senegal music legend Youssou N’Dour announces a bid for the presidency

Presidential elections are scheduled in Senegal for February 26th next and world renowned Youssou N’Dour has confirmed his candidacy saying: ‘I’ve travelled the world and

The One Percent-ers

Can you name the wealthiest person in the world, or how about five of the top twenty?

Media Images – the debate continues

Yet again, a short 10 minute film debates the issue of media messages and images in relation to the Third World. Launched on January 11th,

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

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