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Jan 6 2011 3:26PM
Rape in Haitis camps

It never rains, but it pours like hell. That must be the prevalent feeling in Haiti’s camps as the first-year anniversary of 2010’s devastating earthquake approaches. Oxfam released a report today blaming ‘dithering and aid confusion’...

Jan 5 2011 4:44PM
Freebird: the Saudi spy vulture affair

If it had been the first day of April yesterday and not boring old 4 January (1/4 not 4/1) I don’t think many people would have believed that story about the vulture that was "arrested" in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of spying for Israel...

Jan 5 2011 7:37AM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly   December 28, 2010 January 3, 2011

Highlights Children’s Rights and Food Safety Activist Zhao Lianhai Believed to Be Released: Zhao Lianhai (赵 连海), founder of the online advocacy group Kidney Stone Babies, has been released from prison on medical parole, according to a...

Jan 4 2011 7:57PM
Medical sleuths in Guinea Bissau and not forgetting the MDGs

The Vaccine Casebook was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 8 pm on Tuesday 4 January 2011. A team of Danish and African health specialists has been monitoring a population there and has come up with interesting findings that could influence...

Jan 4 2011 6:51PM
Controversy over stun-guns: Radio 4 programme on Wednesday

The Stunning Controversy is a programme on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday 5 January 2011 at 9 pm. It looks into the use of stun-guns or tasers in the USA and asks how safe these weapons are.