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Human Rights

WATCH: This is What Torture Really Looks Like

As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for fo...
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Human Rights

A Brutal Account of the Syrian Civil War (Warning: Graphic Content)

On Oct. 28, 2012, journalist Olly Lambert was filming an interview with a Syrian rebel leader in the village of al-Bara for FRONTLINE, a government airstrike hit barely 300 meters from where he was filming. Keeping the cameras ...
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Politics

WATCH: Meet Global Corruption’s Hidden Players

When the son of the president Equatorial Guinea, a desperately poor country, starts buying mansions in Florida and top of the range sports cars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, corruption, suggests Charmian Gooch, foun...
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Africa

WATCH: Religious missionaries are spreading homophobia in Uganda

In his latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the prop...
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Asia

Google Earth Uncovers North Korea’s Secret Concentration and Detention Camps

Google Earth has uncovered concentration and detention camps that the North Korean government have been trying to keep secret for years. According to organizations like One Free Korea and The Committee for Human Rights in No...
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Green

Deny Climate Change? Not for Much Longer {Video}

This Public Service Announcement from British television series “The Armstrong and Miller Show” shows what can happen to you if you deny climate change just because it’s a little rainy… …and yes, w...
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Chile

WATCH: How Advertising Overthrew a Dictatorship

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet faced international pressure to call a referendum on his presidency. Below is a trailer for the film “NO”, the true story of  a marketing campaign which sparked a...
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Australia

WATCH: Australian Prime Minister Addresses the End of The World

Will the end of the world come from flesh-eating zombies, demonic hill beasts, or from the total triumph of K-Pop? Whatever it is, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, has our backs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl...
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Blog

We Have Been Nominated for a trip to India with Virgin Media Pioneers

Natasha has been shortlisted to win a trip to India to meet Sir Richard Branson with the Virgin Media Pioneers! She is down to the final 8, and if she wins will have the opportunity to take the IPF international and to take par...
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