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Dust From A Distant Sun: Combatting Corruption In Cambodia

How does corruption within the government impact upon society? Volunteer Hannah Griffiths reports from her recent research and reporting trip to Cambodia, where she visited some inspiring NGOs who are working to ensure communities can hold their government to account...

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Feature: Malaria In Ghana - Behind The Screens…

Hannah Martin, backpacking across Africa, takes some time out to tell us about her Malaria experience; behind the screen, pants down - and all the lovely nitty gritty details…

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Cowboys And Indians: Making Sure Disability Counts

India's population has recently climbed to 1 billion people, and the government's currently attempting to conduct a census. Reporting from Orissa, Kevin E. G. Perry tells us why the government should identify the number of people living with disabilities during this process, leaving no-one behind...

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Stray Bullets: Protestors Demand Democracy From Algeria To Yemen

A wave of revolt is sweeping through the Arab world, and the last two weeks have seen mass protests from Algeria to Yemen. Richard Lemmer powers on with Ctrl.Alt.Shift's news blog, and brings you the latest on the gripping events in the Middle East...

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Dust From A Distant Sun: Cambodia’s Garment Workers

Amy Hall dedicated some time on her Cambodia reporting trip (in winter 2010) to investigate into the garment industry in the country; and to see what is being done to ensure the workers get better pay and conditions…

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Feature: Cash For Kidneys - The Gruesome Trade In Black-Market Organs

The emergence of a black-market trade in human organs in developing countries may not be the most appetising of topics. In her latest feature, CAS correpsonant Melanie Scagliarini prooves no global issue is too gross to tackle, allow her to welcome you into the grusome world of transplant tourism...

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Southern Sudan Votes For Liberation

At the recent ballot, an overwhelming number of Sudanese people turned out to vote for the future independence of Southern Sudan. Fadah Jassem reports...

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The Jasmine Revolution: Egypt's Youth Revolt

A wave of protest has hit Tunisia and Egypt, and it's spreading. Young people are playing a central role in the dynamic demand for democractic change, and a future in which their voices can be heard. Fadah Jassem fills us on on why our young Arab brothers and sisters want to stand up and be noticed...

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Feature: Keeping Our Eye On The Ball After Football's £200m Transfer Blowout

Exorbitant ticket prices, tabloid scandals, sexist commentators, even tax avoidance, and the latest: £200m spent on transfers by English Premier League football clubs - whilst 864 million people go hungry every day. How can they (and we) keep the beautiful game beautiful? Matthew Cunningham reports...

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CAS @ Oxford Uni - Rape As A Weapon Of War In The DRCongo

Disturbing but true: in some conflict situations, the systematic rape of women is used as a weapon of war. CAS volunteer Imogen Davies headed down to a talk at Oxford University to learn more about this socially destructive phenomenon in the DRCongo…

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