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Dec 12 2013 8:44AM
Dealing with guns: a creative Mexican idea

What do you do if you have too many guns and if they are fuelling violence? Pedro Reyes, a young Mexican artist, found a creative answer; turn the guns into something useful or beautiful! See the article by Marguerite Ward: From Guns...

Dec 11 2013 4:44PM
I’ve received praise for my work, she’s had death threats

I have never met Doctor D, the Afghan gynaecologist whose experience I voiced in the film above, but I know by her story that we have a lot in common. When I was asked if I wanted to be involved in this film, I absolutely leapt at the...

Dec 11 2013 1:52AM
Reading out Articles from Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Human Rights Day 2013

English version after an extract in Chinese ----start in Chinese----------- 在人权日华维藏团结会在伦敦中国使馆前烛光集会期间,使馆为防直接收到抗议信,向英国警方投诉示威人士恐吓了他们,声称使馆的正门门廊区域属于私有财产,要求英国警方不要让示威人士进入这一区域。视频: https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?v=10151762352542064...

Dec 10 2013 4:40PM
Kalpana Chakma – Lost but not forgotten in Bangladesh

When I was 23 I had just left University. I lived at home with my mum and dad, had a job in a little shop near my home and when I wasn’t working I spent time with friends. I had little to no interest in activism, and really, why would...

Dec 10 2013 12:57PM
Remembering Mandela: 'I don’t need my name in history books. I was there.'

Colin Haskin is a life-long activist and works with Amnesty in South Africa. I was born in 1957 to a white Irish father and a black Zulu mother. My older sister and younger brother came out white. I did not. For us to live together as...