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Human Rights Day Feature: Exposing The Route Of All Torture

The coalition government announced it will hold an inquiry into a string of cases in which Britain is accused of being complicit in the torture of detainees - but how substantial will this move be for human rights and justice for the innocent victims? Peter Apps reports…

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Dust From A Distant Sun: What Can You Buy In Cambodia For £1?

Luke Harman reports direct from his Christian Aid gap year trip to Cambodia - where he's seeing how local NGO's are working to alleviate the exploitation of children on the streets...

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CAS World AIDS Day Reports 2010

No less than eight CAS contributors wrote about their perspectives on World AIDS Day, from their knowlege of HIV treatment across the world, to their views on the fight against HIV stigma. Check them all out here...

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Feature: A Golden Age Of ‘Democracy’

Platform2 returnee, Roshan Adam, reports from a session with director of REACH Charity, Dana Mohammed; the hot topic being the questionable transition from dictatorship to ‘real’ democracy, and the importance of the vote…

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CAS @ 400 Women Exhibition - Remembering Those Lost In Cuidad Juárez

Alicia-Rae Light reviews the thought-provoking ‘400 Women’ exhibition in Shoreditch, London; a display in remembrance of the 175 of the estimated 400 women brutally murdered, raped, beheaded, tortured, and held captive in the Mexican border town of Cuidad Juárez between 1993-2003…

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CAS Films Win BFI Festival Awards!

Claire Meeghan reports from the BFI Film Festival 2010, where two of Ctrl.Alt.Shift's short films (War School and HIV: The Musical) won youth film awards...

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Feature: The Great Cotton Stitch Up

Amy Hall looks at new Fairtrade report the Great Cotton Stitch Up and why money given to US and EU farmers could mean that cotton producers in West Africa are losing out...

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Stray Bullets - Bribery Charges For Dick Cheney + Calls For The Freedom Of Liu Xiaobo

Richard Lemmer reports on Dick Cheney being charged by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency over a bribery scandal, calls for the freedom of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, nationwide protests against Topshop and tax avoidance, and David Miliband being criticised for his Sri Lanka aid work...

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Blog: From Kenya To Gwynedd To Namibia

Paul Fegan reflects on his Platform2 experience and the path it's taken him on today...

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Feature: TMI? - Security And Censorship In The Age Of WikiLeaks

Sofya Shahab looks closer at the power of Wikileaks; questioning the security of the public information, the view of founder Julian Assange, and who is watching the watchman…

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