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Cowboys And Indians - India Floods Appeal

In a year when devastating floods have shaken up countless numbers of lives from Pakistan to Nepal, now millions more of India’s poorest people are facing the future in the knowledge that their crops, homes and livelihoods have been washed away. Kevin E.G. Perry reports direct from India…

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Stray Bullets - Beatings At M&S-Linked Factory And Times Photo Sparks Lashings In Iran

Richard Lemmer scopes across this week’s top headlines from around the world: workers in Indian factory linked to M&S ‘beaten’ with hockey sticks, Times photo sparks lashings for Iranian women, food riots in Mozambique and Tony Blair book signing greeted by a protest…

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Vickie Wilson Battlefront Blog: Give It Up For Ghana

Vickie Wilson, a campaigner for Channel 4 project, Battlefront, tells Ctrl.Alt.Shift all about her mission to give the children of Ghana a better chance with their education…

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Feature: Young People And Sexual Health In The UK

Platform2 returnee Elaine Wong takes a closer look at the shocking rise of STIs among under 25s in the UK and the people behind the stats...

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Condoms at the International AIDS Conference

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Oxford o2 Academy In October

Dub Politics and Wordplay in association with Ctrl.Alt.Shift are taking over the o2 Academy in Oxford on October 1, 2010 for a night of Dubstep and Hip Hop...

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Feature: The Grow Heathrow! Campaign - Winning The First Step

The Grow Heathrow! campaigners report on their gradual steps in their fight to rejuvenate the airport's third runway site...

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Cowboys And Indians - The 16km Scholar

From being a wannabe student (walking 16km to gain an education), to now mentoring India's next generation, Raju Chinthakayala has had quite a journey. Kevin E.G. Perry finds out more about this inspirational character...

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Feature: Vedanta’s Reproach - Human Lives Over Corporate Interest

Vedanta Resources UK's proposal to expand its mining facility in Orissa, India – which threatens to encroach the lives of 8,000 indigenous Dongria Kondh people who inhabit the state’s Niyamgiri Hills – has been rejected by the government. Josh Strauss reports…

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