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Africa
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Kenyan Slum Tours: Voyeurism Or Altruism

Kibera, is possibly the largest and most renowned slum in Africa; home to approximately a million people, a site for hundreds of charities and a place considered the typical slum situation. Although, what can be considered typi...
by Flo Carson
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Asia
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The Free Market, Is It Truly Free?

Less than thirty years ago, much of the world was divided into two power blocs who were diametrically opposed to each other in both ideological and economic terms. On one side, the communist governance and command economy of th...
by Simon Fraser
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Health

The Insane Politics Of Mental Health

Politicians are paying more attention to the issues of mental health but there is a long way to go before it is taken as seriously as physical health. One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in ...
by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
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Development
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Hunger: Poverty Is The Problem Not Production

The whole world is consuming more calories than it did forty years ago. The world population is growing at a rate of 200,000 people a day. These people must be fed. How can this be done? Food producers argue that, in order to f...
by Joe Corry-Roake
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Asia

WATCH: Pagpag – Meal of the Day

Each evening we sit down for a meal. We rarely think about where our food comes from, how much it costs us or what we will do with our leftovers. As part of the Your WorldView Thought for Food season, independent filmmakers an...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Human Rights

WATCH: Coal mining – a profession for the poor

Every day people climb dangerously deep into the ground to support themselves as coal miners. The film Coal Boy tells the story of a boy in the Jaintia Hills in northeast India who was born into this fate. Most people can never...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Economy

WATCH: Living on one dollar

We all know that there are many people in the world who live in poverty. Poverty has become a part of people’s lives even in the most cosmopolitan of cities – but only because we hear about it so much and are urged ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Animal Rights
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World Food Day: The Cost Of Meat

The devastating effects of mass meat production and how the increasing demand for meat has changed the world. Most people love meat and they always have, especially in Europe, meat can be found on consumers plates on a daily ba...
by Nane Steinhoff
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Economy
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WATCH: Income distribution in the UK

The income gap between rich and poor in the UK has been growing over the past 30 years. Today British inequality has reached its highest levels seen since World War II. Despite this, British people are unaware of how serious i...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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