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Cowboys And Indians - Village People

Kevin E.G. Perry meets Lulu, a human rights worker in the village of Koraput, India. The encounter enlightens Kevin on the village way of educating children and families on health and sanitation issues; from HIV/AIDS to washing your hands after taking a dump…

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Postcards From The Edge: Peru - The Circle Of Life On The Other Side

Romesa Chaudry gives an insight into the dreams and life of a 12–year-old boy living in poverty in one of Peru’s poorest regions...

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Battlefront: Calling All Big Hearts And Big Ambitions

In a few weeks campaigner Vickie Wilson from Channel 4’s Battlefront initiative will be blogging for Ctrl.Alt.Shift about her year-long mission to supply every Ghanaian child with a basic school kit. Fadah Jassem tells us more about the C4 project, and how you can get on board…

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Plane Stupid Blog: Climate Action As Self Defence

Another opinion blog from the Plane Stupid crew - this time Rosie Slay, who reports on how climate action can be, and should be, used as self defence against climate injustice...

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Feature: A UN Resolution - Your Right To Water

Access to clean drinking water and sanitation has been declared a human right by the UN. Adizah Tejani takes a closer look at the UN’s new resolution…

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Water from the community tap. Chujllunqueri village.

Feature: Mãe Preta - The Black Mother

At 88 years old many people would lie down and rest. Not Donna Maria Davina Rodriguez, known in Salvador as 'Mãe Preta' (The Black Mother) who has spent the past 40 years of her life feeding poor and homeless children. Melanie Scagliarini reflects on a meeting with this ex-prostitute…

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Ctrl Meets Nathaniel Peat - Social Entrepreneur Part 2

After grilling inspirational young entrepreneur Nathaniel Peat about the G20 Toronto conference last week, Adizah Tejani turns the focus onto the Safety Box, corruption, and leadership...

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Stray Bullets - Naomi Campbell Against War Crimes And Wyclef For Haiti President

Richard Lemmer scopes across the world’s headlines this week; which include US billionaires pledging their leftover wealth to charities, Naomi Campbell testifying at the trial of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor, and Wyclef Jean eyeing up the Haiti Presidential spot...

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Pakistan Flood: The Aftermath - Torrential Rains

Up to 14 million people have been affected by the floods so far, and further torrential rains aren't improving conditions, hindering aid helicopters and rescue missions. Fadah Jassem reports, and tells us how to get involved...

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Pakistan floods (photo courtesy of Reuters / Andrees Latif)

Feature: Vedanta Resources = Expendable Homelands

Josh Strauss was down at the Institute for Civil Engineering in London last week for an epic protest against Vedanta; and their "reckless destruction of delicate ecosystems and indigenous homelands" in the Niyamgiri Hills of India...

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