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Feature: Tenants Of Nakawa Pushed Out By Luxury Developer

The residents of Nakawa, Uganda, live in uncertainty. Never sure if or when they’ll be forced from their homes by a UK-based development company appointed by their own government. Holly Davis talks directly to her contact and friend from the region...

Nakawa school teachers and children

Craftivist Collective: Guerrilla Art On London Fashion Week

To mark the start of London Fashion Week 2010, activist group The Craftivist Collective has created homemade Mini Protest Banners aimed at exposing the ugly side of fashion...

Feature: Is Fairtrade Cocaine The Answer To South America's War On Drugs?

With various human and civil rights organisations claiming the current anti-drug methods are failing, is it time to consider a more radical solution? Melanie Scagliarini reports on the ‘War on Drugs’ and how it’s entwined with the battle for human safety and against poverty…

Stray Bullets - USA Puts Dollars Before Rights And UN Slams The World

Richard Lemmer scopes out the latest breaking news from across the globe: USA puts arms deal with Saudi Arabia before women's rights, UN critises us all, Qur'an-burning sparks protests in Kashmir and Trident project meets resistance...

F-15

Ctrl Meets Kamenye Jimmie King: Breaking Artist In Uganda

Holly Davis recounts her life-changing trip to Uganda, where she met Ugandan UBC TV presenter and rising afro-pop/dancehall artist Jimmie - who wants to use his talent to inspire others and create a lasting change in Africa...

Jimmie

Divine Chocolate Poetry Competition!

Divine Chocolate and Christian Aid invites you to write about chocolate and be in on a chance to win a box of wonderful Divine chocolates plus £30 worth of book vouchers…

Feature: Combatants For Peace - No Victory In Violence

What happens when Palestinian and Israeli fighters swap weapons for theatre? Melanie Scagliarini tells us more about the inspirational pro-peace initiative, Combatants For Peace...

Combatants for Peace theatre production

Climate Change: The Consequences Come Flooding In

In light of recent events in India and Pakistan, it's becoming clearer every day that that climate chaos is hitting some of the world's most vulnerable communities the hardest. Eva Baker reports on why tackling climate change is a vital part of tackling poverty...

Book Review: Writing On The Edge

This wriiten and visual collaboration, created by an all-star line up, sets out to explore some of the world's most pressing social issues and contexts, from Cambodia to the Congo. Kevin Perry gets stuck in to an eye opening read...

Feature: What Is Poverty?

Platform2 returnee Jonathan Hanson looks back on his time with his host family in Peru and questions how we define poverty and its root causes...

Children in Las Flores, Peru
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