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World Aids Day

Today is World Aids Day. Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not...

Submitted by Nigel.Atkinson

A Bit Over The Top?

I found this French AIDS poster here. Um, just a tad over the top, I think. What's your first reaction on seeing things? I hope we find another way of raising HIV/AIDS awareness without relying on scare tactics or just the plain absurd, it's getting a bit tired.

Submitted by Yumna.Martin

JR: The Hippest Street Artist Since Banksy

French artist JR has worked in some of the world's poorest places; his latest project took place in Kibera, the second biggest slum in Kenya. JR has been described as the most exciting new 'outsider' since Banksy. All the money he makes through this visual art goes straight back into his work, his...

Submitted by Holly.Davis

More Than A Map...

It's so easy to just see this image as a map, another bunch of stats for us to gloss over. But I can't do that any longer. I spent the last two weeks in Kenya, and saw first-hand how climate change is affecting people that haven't contributed nearly half the CO2 emissions one of us have. I...

Submitted by Yumna.Martin

Gordon Brown Reassures The Nation

Gordon Brown Reassures The Nation - an additional comic script by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. Daniel is the premier comic artist who specialises in creating online stories. He is behind our on-line comic, Empire Of Odd, which is part of the wide Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption collaboration.

Submitted by Beth-Louise.Sturdee

Kid Made To Drink Acid For Jesus

Nwanaokwo Edet, 9, whose father forced him to drink acid days after the family's pastor denounced the child as a witch, lying in a hospital bed in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria.

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Raindance Film Festival

Photo by Matt Gonzalez-Noda

Submitted by James.Prosho

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Raindance Film Festival

Photo by Matt Gonzalez-Noda

Submitted by James.Prosho

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Raindance Film Festival

Photo by Matt Gonzalez-Noda

Submitted by James.Prosho

Our Mervin Enjoys The RIGHT To Join The BNP

This photo was taken by Mann-ray Powell on Thursday October 15th 2009 - the day the British National Party (BNP) policy was change to finally, officially allow non-whites into their party (after being cornered in a court battle with the Equality and Human Rights Comission in summer 2009).A...

Submitted by Dwain.Lucktung