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Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
Cut to the core
Gold miners in the Brazilian Amazon are destroying the Yanomami community’s home. But, says Davi Kopenawa, his people are ready to fight for their land. Rowenna Davis met him.
Our kids, their kids
Children of safai karmacharis (people engaged in sanitation work) in Gujarat are being forced by teachers to clean toilets and mop floors in school. Mari Marcel Thekaekara listens to their stories.
One in one million
Campaigner for women’s rights in her native Iran, Leila Alikarami talks about the One Million Signatures campaign, how the equality laws can and should be changed, and the impact of the election result on her fellow countrywomen.
From Calais to Dover: the widening gulf
Sophie Roumat reports on last month's destruction of the 'Jungle' - the Calais camp which housed Afghan asylum seekers.
Running out of patience
Exactly 34 years after a ruling by the ICJ recognized the Saharawi’s right to self-determination, British MPs gathered to call for the release of seven human rights defenders in Morocco. Stefan Simanowitz was there.
In every kiss a revolution
Uruguay, self-proclaimed ‘Latin capital of respect and tolerance’ marches for diversity. Solen Lees reports.
'I don't have a problem - the problem is theirs'
In Bolivia, public and community art is being used to convey the priorities and aspirations of disabled people.
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Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for?
What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for
that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a
10-point economic detox programme.
A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on
biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.
Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was
born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
abortion in Colombia.
The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.
The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin
Alavi explains.
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