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Helen Newlove: The voice of the victim

The British woman who's devoted her life to campaigning for the rights of victims

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Dhaka Factory: Cost of Saving Lives

The emotional toll on the rescuers at Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh

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'Gorillas taught me to be human'

Dawn Prince-Hughes has Asperger's Syndrome and says that copying gorillas made her human

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'Nuns told me I was mentally ill'

As a child, Clarina Duguay was wrongly diagnosed as mentally incompetent.

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'I'll Defeat Guinea Worm, Then Retire'

US doctor Donald Hopkins has made it his life's work to eradicate Guinea worm from Africa

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Liberia's "Iron Lady"

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia on why she is known as "Africa's Iron Lady"

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Hassan al-Amin: I fled Libya twice

Hassan al-Amin opposed Gaddafi from exile but has now been forced into exile a second time

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Stargazing in the Darkest Skies

American writer Paul Bogard on why true darkness matters and where it still exists

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New Schools for the Burmese Delta

May Tha Hla founded a project to build schools in the Irrawaddy Delta after cyclone Nargis

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First Saudi Woman to Climb Everest

How 27-year-old Raha Moharrak defied Saudi stereotypes by climbing Mount Everest

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I Died Six Times on my Honeymoon

The British man who died six times when he was on honeymoon in the Maldives

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'Omosexy': The Queen of Nollywood

Nollywood actress Omotola Ekeinde on Nigeran cinema and giving a voice to young Africans

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Rebuilding the World Trade Center

Marcus Robinson, the artist documenting the rebuilding of the World Trade Center

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The 'Lost Hero' of 9/11

A former US marine who was revealed to be the mysterious rescuer of 9/11.

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Tunisia's Ex-PM: My 17 years in prison

Hamadi Jebali was the first Prime Minister of post-revolutionary Tunisia

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Afghanistan's Unstoppable Teacher

Chantal Véron has devoted herself to teaching Afghans through war, exile and regime-change

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Memorial in the Sahara Desert

The challenges of commemorating the lives of 170 people killed in a plane bombing

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Shot Seven Times in Fort Hood Massacre

Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford barely survived the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood army base

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Torn Between Two Countries

How Harvard scholar Majid Rafizadeh faced the challenges of a Syrian-Iranian dual identity

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Calcutta Rape Victim: Why I Spoke Out

Suzette Jordan defied social stigma by identifying herself as a rape victim

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Bill Bryson: America's Greatest Year?

Writer Bill Bryson on why the summer of 1927 was a turning point in American history

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Ewan Clayton: Scribe of Silicon Valley

Calligrapher Ewan Clayton went from monastic life in England to advising digital pioneers

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The 19th Wife: Escaping Polygamy

Rebecca Musser was forced to marry an 85-year-old self-styled prophet of a radical sect

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Escaping Slavery in Mauritania

A Mauritanian slave's extraordinary journey to freedom - and how he freed his family

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The Power of Words

Acclaimed Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on the power of writing and life in exile

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Rescuing the mentally ill in Somalia

'Dr Habeeb' talks about his lonely campaign to promote mental health in war-torn Somalia

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Saving Victims of the LRA

The nun devoted to helping women and girls traumatised by the Lords Resistance Army

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I Played Basketball for Gaddafi

American basketball player Alex Owumi was shocked to learn he had joined Gaddafi's team

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Investigating 11,000 ‘Forgotten’ Rapes

American prosecutor Kym Worthy is determined to investigate thousands of unsolved rapes

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Refugee Camp: Child's Eye View

How Syrian children in a refugee camp in Iraq are coping with the violence they've seen

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