Vedanta Resources UK's proposal to expand its mining facility in Orissa, India – which threatens to encroach the lives of 8,000 indigenous Dongria Kondh people who inhabit the state’s Niyamgiri Hills – has been rejected by the government. Josh Strauss reports…

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Richard Lemmer gives us a run down of this week’s biggest global and social issues; 31ers plan to take Moscow protests global, an Iranian activist sues Nokia, and Sudan's SPLA pledges to discharge child soldiers...

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Platform2 returnee Safie Benoit looks back on her time in Jaisalmer, India – where lack of access to clean water and sanitation affects school children and communities.

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Dave Bull reports back on the vast differences between the rural regions in Nepal (from the way of life, gender and sanitation issues) compared with the Western world; following his ten weeks there as part of the Platform2 volunteering programme...

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