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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) School children visiting the museum learn about the implications of BP's sponsorship and get to see the crude oil from the Mixican Guld oil dissaster. The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. [3] Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) <br />
The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) <br />
The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) School children visiting the museum learn about the implications of BP's sponsorship and get to see the crude oil from the Mixican Guld oil dissaster. The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. [3] Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) A bottle with crude oil from the oil dissaster in the Guld of Mexico, caused by BP and a tear gas canister used in Egypt is on display surrounded by the many small black stones. The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) <br />
The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) <br />
The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • The art activist protest group Bp-or-not-Bp make an artistic intervention at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the oil company BP sponsors a show called Sunken Cities at the Museum May 17 2016. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) A bottle with crude oil from the oil dissaster in the Guld of Mexico, caused by BP and a tear gas canister used in Egypt is on display surrounded by the many small black stones. The press release states:  "The lines of stones in the artwork represent the 340 people forcibly disappeared in the four months prior to BP signing a $12bn dollar deal with the Sisi regime – a rehash of a deal it had made with the Mubarak regime. The total number disappeared under the Sisi regime may run into thousands. [3] Teargas is a weapon that was used both to repress popular protest in Tahrir Square during the revolution but also those who actively opposed BP’s operations in the country. "
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  • Site of the bus 38 bombing in Tavistock Road. Police have closed the road and  put covers across the road while forensics are working on evidence gathering and general clean-up. Anthony Fatayi-Williams 25, Gladys Wundowa 50, Neetu Jain 37, Marie Hartley 34, Susan Levy 53. Giles Hart 55, Philip Stuart Russel 28, Miriam Hyman 31, Anat Rosenburg 39, Sam Ly 28, Jamie Gordon 30, Shyanuja Parathasangary 30, Shahara Islam 20, William Wise 54 .plus 100s of wounded.all maimed and killed by Hasib Mir Hussain, also dead.
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  • Russel Square tube station.Police have closed the road and put covers in front of the tube entrance while forensics are working on evidence gathering and general clean-up. 4 suicide bombers killed 54 commuters in London 7/7 2005.Ciaran Cassidy 22, James Mayes 28, Arthur Frederick 60, James Adams 32, ElizabethDaplyn 26, Adrian Juhnson 37, Helen Jones 28, Lee Harris, Philip Beer 22, Samantha Badham 36, Christian Small 28, Emily Jenkins 24, Ojara Ikeagwo 55, Karolina Gluck 29, Monika Suchocka 25, Anna Brandt 43, Ihab Slimane 24, Shelley Marie Mather 26, Ganze Gunoral 24, Behnaz Mozakka 47, Ateeque Sharifi 24, Michelle Otto 46, Michael Matsushita 37, Rachelle Chung 27, Mala Trivedi plus 100s of wounded.  ..All maimed and killed by Germaine Lindsay, also dead...The missing woman, Miriam Hyman was later confirmd dead, killed on the bus no 30..
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  • Site of the bus 38 bombing in Tavistock Road. Police have closed the road and  put over covers across the road while forensics are working on evidence gathering and general clean-up. Anthony Fatayi-Williams 25, Gladys Wundowa 50, Neetu Jain 37, Marie Hartley 34, Susan Levy 53. Giles Hart 55, Philip Stuart Russel 28, Miriam Hyman 31, Anat Rosenburg 39, Sam Ly 28, Jamie Gordon 30, Shyanuja Parathasangary 30, Shahara Islam 20, William Wise 54 .plus 100s of wounded.all maimed and killed by Hasib Mir Hussain, also dead.
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  • Demonstration of how to use a female condoms, condoms sponsored by UNFPA, demonstration run by SACA.  To many women making their husband use a condom is impossible so to protect themselves they can now use the femidom as an alternative. In connection with a photo exhibition on HIV/AIDS workshops on sexual health and HIV speed testing was held at the hotel in Jalingo. The exhibition was a partnership between Positive Lives, UNFPA, UNHCR and Terrence Higgins Trust UK.<br />
The exhibition was shown and hosted by UNHCR and SACA in Taraba  Motel, Jalingo 29 May- 01 June.
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  • VCT run by FHI/GHAIN in the garden out side the hotel.  Kilyosos fortunately turned out negative! The test can determine in minutes if the patient is HIV positive and the tests are held in privacy in a little blue tent.<br />
That day 31 were tested and 5 were positive, 1 man 4 women. In connection with a photo exhibition on HIV/AIDS workshops on sexual health and HIV speed testing was held at the hotel in Jalingo. The exhibition was a partnership between Positive Lives, UNFPA, UNHCR and Terrence Higgins Trust UK.<br />
The exhibition was shown and hosted by UNHCR and SACA in Taraba  Motel, Jalingo 29 May- 01 June.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • VCT run by FHI/GHAIN in the garden out side the hotel.  People lining up to get tested.  That day 31 were tested and 5 were positive, 1 man 4 women.<br />
Beauty here was negative, but given good advice how to protect herself. In connection with a photo exhibition on HIV/AIDS workshops on sexual health and HIV speed testing was held at the hotel in Jalingo. The exhibition was a partnership between Positive Lives, UNFPA, UNHCR and Terrence Higgins Trust UK.<br />
The exhibition was shown and hosted by UNHCR and SACA in Taraba  Motel, Jalingo 29 May- 01 June.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • 50 anti-cut activists staged their own auction and sell-off of public institutions, teachers and nurses outside Sotheby's auction house in London.‘Orgy of the Rich’ says. "The Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction features secondary market artworks expected to fetch upwards of £30million. Most of these works will end up in the hands of private collectors or used as tax havens, while vital public provisions such as Education and Health Care, get the shaft”.‘This evening’s take of 30 million pounds would pay the annual salary of 1389 new teachers, 1765 qualified nurses or the budget of 150 libraries for a year.’The organisers of the demonstration are from a broad coalition of artists, students, public servants and creative workers formed in reaction to the government’s announcement that the arts and educational institutions will have to produce more on a lot less.
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  • Ahmed Koson from TYPA at  workshop on HIV/AIDS and sexual health, introducing ca. 50 women to condoms, both male and female as a way of protecting themselves against HIV infection.<br />
After the condom demonstration the PLE CDG is introduced.In connection with a photo exhibition on HIV/AIDS workshops on sexual health and HIV speed testing was held at the hotel in Jalingo. The exhibition was a partnership between Positive Lives, UNFPA, UNHCR and Terrence Higgins Trust UK.<br />
The exhibition was shown and hosted by UNHCR and SACA in Taraba  Motel, Jalingo 29 May- 01 June.
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  • A young monk in a Tibetan monestary at the Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple. The young boy is having his hair shaved by an older monk.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road. Dancers dressed in police costumes passe the Job Centre Plus.
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  • One dancer still standing and one still holding on after two days of carnival.The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • A small boy gets a kiss  from a female dancer. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • A female spectator gets her photograph taken with one of the dancers in the parade. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road. A group of dancers make their way down Richmond Road.
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  • Beekeeper Ian Bailey watches as his honey runs through a sieve. His honey is made by bees kept at Hackney City farm in East London. Keeping bees is a growing hobby in London and the hives and apiaries can be found in back gardens and roof tops across the capital.
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  • A boy looks a Christmas tree in the busy market. Columbia Road flower market is held every Sunday and it attracts shoppers from afar. The huge variety in plants and flowers makes it a popular place to shop and the banter between the traders and the quick deals there is to be made makes it a very entertaining place to go.
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  • 8 men dressed in tuxedos and wearing pigs heads tried to join the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, pointing out that the banquet is for the 1 % of society and not the 99%. "The 8 distinguished members of the Willindon club were then forced to seek sustenance at Occupy LSX.
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  • Angkor Wat, Siem Riep. Angkor Wat is a huge temple complex,most of it build almost one thousand years ago. The area spans 10 square Km and is one of Cambodia's biggest tourist attractions. spans 10 square Km and is one of Cambodia's biggest tourist attractions. Stone carvings of Hindu Devatas, devine guardians.
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  • 8 men dressed in tuxedos and wearing pigs heads tried to join the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, pointing out that the banquet is for the 1 % of society and not the 99%. The police rejected the pig's invites and no arrests were made. The distinguished pig men are said to be from the Willingdon club and eventually they moved on to the join the Occupy LSX at St Paul's Cathedral.
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  • LAC lawyer Noun running a workshop in basic legal rights in Kork Chork. This is LAC's first visit to Kork Chork and they have invited local villagers to meet in what is usually only used as a temple.Legal Aid Cambodia  tries through out-reach education in schools to prevent children from falling into crime and teach them their rights.LAC also offer legal aid to children arrested and sent to prison, many of them without any legal representation.
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  • Out-reach peer-peer education to school children. Here Ny Sreay Leak, 16 goes through the LAC produced flip chart of petty crimes and social issues and talk them over with the children.Legal Aid Cambodia  tries through out-reach education in schools to prevent children from falling into crime and teach them their rights.LAC also offer legal aid to children arrested and sent to prison, many of them without any legal representation.
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  • Seamus has had his lungs x-rayed and the x-ray shows no TB. The NHS Mobile X-ray Unit visiting St Pauls Church drop-in  in Onslow Square, London SW7. The rates of tuberculosis in London are higher than any other Western European capital and is a major health problem. Tuberculosis is highly contagious, it is treatable, but in the event of no treatment it is often deadly. The MXU, the Mobile X-ray Unit, is a facility run by the NHS. The MXU is a Tuberculosis screening service on wheels where people can have their chest x-rayed and within minutes be either cleared of TB - or in case of any TB symptoms showing up on the X-rays, be referred to a hospital for further tests and possible treatment. The MXU is aimed at hard to reach groups like homeless people, drug or alcohol abuser and prisoners. The van is the only one in the UK and operates around London where it visits hostels, prisons and community centres where groups of hard to reach clients usually gather. On the van is a team of nurses, radiographers, social and outreach workers and expert technicians.<br />
The MXU van is a part of the NHS department Find and Treat.
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  • March 26 was the day of the March for the Alternative, an anti-cut demonstration organised by the TUC, which drew 3-500.000 people from all over Britain. Along side and after various groups, some Black Bloc, some from UK Uncut and other independent groups staged their own protests around Central London.
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  • Deepa, wants to be a painter. Student presentations at Laboratory Higher Secondary School, one of Nepal's most reputeable schools. The Nepal Good Weave Foundation has presently 18 students enroled at the school, all doing fantastic through hard work and ambitions to get out of poverty. GWF's support only goes as far as grade 10 and many of the youths are worried about their future and how they will be able to continue their studies into grade 11-12 and beyond.
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  • Thousands of teachers took to the streets of London in a march of prostest against Government cuts and proposed longer hours and later pensions as part of a nation wide strike. Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education is the prime taget of the teacher's venon and anger.
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  • March 26 was the day of the March for the Alternative, an anti-cut demonstration organised by the TUC, which drew 3-500.000 people from all over Britain. Some carried shields made of giant one penny pieces as symbolic protecting.
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  • Activists staying warm in their sleeping bags outside their tents whilst talking. Day three of the occupation - and the first Monday.  The Occupy London Stock Exchange movement was formed in London in solidarity with the US based Occupy Wall Street. The movements are a respons and in anger to what is seen by many as corporate greed and a failed banking system being bailed out by the public, - which in return are suffering austerity measures to make up for the billions of lost money. The movement occupied the St Paul's Square in the City of London Sat Oct 15 after it failed to secure and occupy Pator Noster Square and the Stock Exchnage itself.
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  • Class 0, pre-school. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF   provide the children with education based on their abillities.
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  • Shuhaq, 22. Shuhaq was born healthy and grew up happily till he when he was 17 started to feel pains in the joints. He suffers from a genetic disease called Muscular Dystrophy and he is now  100% dependent. He cannot walk or feed himself and is in constant pain. The illness is not treatable and both his sister's two sons now suffer from the same illness. He lives with mother who is the sole carer with a little financial support from his sister and brother-in-law. CSOID used to provide him with a wheel chair but now the only support they can give is counselling and pain killers.
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  • Young Buddhist monks are walking along the river in Battambang, it's evening and rush hour.
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  • Monir,9 years old, father Sorif. Monir has multiple disability. They live in a shack behind a rickshaw holding place with mother Morshda and little sister Mim and brother Muktar. CSID provides Monir with therapy twice/week, his chair and in the past several eye operations for Muktar.
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  • A runner comes up the stairs from Jon's Chapel where she has been down to ring the bell below and gets a drink at one of the two break points on the route. Salomon Hammer Trail Winter Edition is a first on Bornholm and is one of the toughest routes in Denmark. The 4 runs consist of a 50 mile run, a marathon, a 1/2 marathon and 10k all run a on an approximate 25km route which includes 860 meter vertical rise on the North East coast of the Danish island Bornholm. The cut-off time for the 50mile run was 16 hours and more than a hundred runners made it to the finishing line. The last runner across the line after 50 miles  was in after 15:14:40
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  • Sunday evening in one of Phnom Penh's many public parks. many families meet in the park and spend the Sunday off enjoying each other's company. A light show and music play according the water fountain.
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  • A Requiem For The Foghorn, performed by a seventy five piece brass band, a foghorn and an armada of ships playing their remote controlled foghorns.<br />
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A project by Danish artist, Lise Autogena, in collaboration with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough. Ships horns from an armada of vessels off-shore, seventy five brass players on-shore and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn  performed a Foghorn Requiem, an ambitious musical performance to mark the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape.
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  • Greenpeace picket outside the Russian Embassy in London in defence of the 30 Greenpeace activists arreseted and detained in Russia. The Arctic 30 were arrested and the ship the Arctic Sunrise ceased by armed Ruassian special forces in international waters in the Arctic after Greenpeace peacefully tried to scale a Gazprom oil rig to prevent it from drilling for oil in the highly sensitive arctic sea. The peacefull activist were met with coastal guards and special forces armed knives and guns. The Russian authorities threatened to sink the Greenpeace inflateables and fired warning shots in the sea and over the unarmed activisits. All thirty are now facing charges of piracy, highly trumped up and distorted charges, and are kept on remand in Murmansk for 2 months pending investications in to their alleged crimes.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. The three girls, Rabia,18, Munni,15 and Sabia,13, work at home making saris. A factory out-let has commissioned the work. It  take s2 weeks to make a sari and they get £3 /sari each. Rabia and Munni are sister and both suffer from Rheumatic Arthritis and sitting down working 9 hours/ day seven days a week only makes their condition worse. Sabia wants to go to school but both Rabia and Muni prefer not to go out. Their disability has made them very shy, they cant walk properly and standing up Rabia is now only the size of a 10 year old. Her father says that if they were to go to school, who would then pay for their medication, not to mention the loss of income they generate...best to stay at home he says. The Stars Foundation visiting CSID.<br />
Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • Life in the slums by the  railway tracks in Tejgaon. Homes are build closely to the tracks leading in and out of one of Dhaka's main train stations and life is goes on as in any othr part of Dhaka in spite of the dangerous proximity to the live tracks and trains passing at regular intervals. Youths looking through rubbishin search of useful scraps.
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  • Life in the slums by the  railway tracks in Tejgaon. Homes are build closely to the tracks leading in and out of one of Dhaka's main train stations and life is goes on as in any othr part of Dhaka in spite of the dangerous proximity to the live tracks and trains passing at regular intervals. School kid making their way home through the slums along the tracks.
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  • A man is reading holy scriptures below the giant Boudhanath stupa, part of Nepal's four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The stupa is one of the most holy sites of pilgrimage for Buddhists around the world. Near Kahmandu, in the valley.
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  • A samba band performing on Westminster Bridge.<br />
The Health and Care Bill has been passed by Parliament and is due to go to the House of Lords. In protest against the bill which aim to deconstruct and privatise large parts of the NHS UK Uncut activists together with health workers and trade unionists blocked the Westminster Bridge from 1pm til 5.30pm.
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  • Kingussie (in red and blue) versus Kinlochshiel. An Orion Group Premiership league game.<br />
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Shinty, or 'Camanachd' in Scottish, is a game only played mostly in the Highlands between teams representing villages and towns. The game is older than the recorded history of Scotland and is played on a grass pitch using a small ball and sticks (called a caman). Each team consists of twelve players and the game is played over two halves of 45 minutes. The the aim is to score goals only by using the caman. A ball hit over the sideline results in a 'shy'. To do a shy a player must throw the ball above his or her head and hit the ball with the caman directly over the head using both hands.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. Children and mothers at an Inclusive Pre-School where children both disabled and not are prepared for going to school in the Adabor/Mohammadpur area. The project is supported by Save the Children International. Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for integrating disabled children into mainstream society.
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  • A bumblebee is eating nectar from a sun flower in a back garden in London. Keeping bees is a growing hobby in London and the hives and apiaries can be found in back gardens and roof tops across the capital.
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  • The stilt group are discussing if its time to end the blockade or not.<br />
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Crude Oil Awakening is a coalition of climate change activist groups. On Saturday Oct 16 they shut the only entrance to Coryton oil refinery in Essex, UK with the aim of highlighting the issues of climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. The blockade meant that a great number of trucks with oil were not able to leave the refinary during the day of action.
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  • Wicker basket making at dusk near Dhading. The basket is used for many things and usually carried on the back with a strap around the fore head.
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  • A farmer is plowing a rice paddy on a terrace above the river in Dhading to get it ready to plant rice the traditional way using buffalos and a plow. Most farming in Nepal is done this way with hardly any machanised aid  to be found anywhere in the country.
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  • Thousands of students and some trade unionists took to the streets in London to protest against the proposed Lib-Con coalition Government's cuts in educationa and public sector. The march started in Mellet Street next to SOAS University and by Parliament it dissolved into many smaller groups dispersing around Central London. It was a noicy but peaceful protest with very few arrests and no injuries.
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  • Consultation on Hackney Downs Station 25th May 2016, Hackney, London,United Kingdom. Representatives from TFL, Groundwork and Repowering London advertise the planned gardens to go on the plantforms and ask commuters for their suggestions on what to grow.  Repowering London and their Energy Garden project in the making. Energy Gardens is a pan-London community garden project where reclaimed land alongside over ground train stations and track are cultivated by local community groups. Up 50 gardens are projected with the rail network being the connection grid. The project is a collaboration between Repowering London, Groundwork, local community groups, station managers working for Transport For London and Network Rail.
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  • Junior doctors and supporters picket the Homerton University Hospital in Hackney to raise support. Juniro doctors all over the country are on a one day strike against the proposed new working conditions and pay by the Government.
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  • Climate activists block a road by Heathrow in protest against the proposed third runway November 19th 2016 in Heathrow, London,United Kingdom. Police cutting free the activists. Police were out in force and after 30 minutes the the roads were clear. 9 Arrests were made at this point of the protests which was part of larger act of civil disobedience.
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  • Climate activists block a road by Heathrow in protest against the proposed third runway November 19th 2016 in Heathrow, London,United Kingdom. Police were out in force and after 30 minutes the the roads were clear. 9 Arrests were made at this point of the protests which was part of larger act of civil disobedience.
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  • Emma Thompson, a staunch supporter of the Arctic and Greenpeace poses with Aurora. Greenpeace and the giant polar bear Aurora outside Shell London HQ.  'Save the Arctic' is a long running campaign by Greenpeace targeting oil companies like Shell. Greenpeace wants oil exploration in the Arctic to stop and the giant polar bear Aurora has spend the past 4 weeks outside Shell's London HQ demanding Shell to stop drilling for oil. On Monday Sept 28 Shell announced they would stop drilling, a huge victory for Greenpeace and the environment movement.
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  • The Red Line action between the Arc de Triumph and La Defense. COP21 in Paris. The official climate talks in Paris is on and the pressure to come up with a sustainable legally binding is high.
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  • The view of the Isle of Dogs 20th November 2015. Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs is one of Londons financial districts and it is surrounded by housing and council estates in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets. In the foreground passes a train coming from London Liverpool Street Station.
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  • Sleaford Mods live at the Koko in Camden.  Sleaford Mods is a duo based in Nottingham, composed of vocalist Jason Williamson and musician Andrew Robert Lindsay Fearn. The music is furious with Williamson on vocals and Fearn behind the pre-programmed music.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. A lamb runs off out while the mother is sheared. Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Sheep shearing season on 18th of June 2020, in Stow in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom. Carl and Craig working  flat-out, shearing sheep all day. They both got other farming jobs but during shearing season they take on shearing which takes skills.  Stewart Runciman has got 800 sheep and sheep shearing season is on. He keeps his sheep and lambs in the fields above Stow in the Scottish Borders but takes them inside at Muir House farm to have their wool cut. Wool and fleece was never a good business but with COVID-19 the price on wool has dropped and Stewart now loses up to 80p / sheep  but the shearing has to be done for animal welfare reasons.
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  • Save Shaker Aamer vigil at Parliament Square. Shaker Ameer is a Guantanamo prisoner and every Wednesday Stop the War Coalition holds a vigil outside Parliament.
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  • A woman holds up a pen in  defiance against the attack on freedom of speech. Londoners show their solidarity with the 12 people killed in an attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and their revulsion of the attack on freedom of speech at a vigil in Trafalgar Square. Three attackers killed ten journalist working for Charlie Hebdo and two police officers, the worst terrorist attack in Paris, France in 50 years.
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  • Marchers leave Traffalgar Square heading to Parliament Square. The March of a Million Masks brought thousands of mostly masked protestors onto the streets of London. The march was in protest against the current govenrment and global internet state surveillance, and was held at Guy Fakes Night and called by the hacker group Anonymous.
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  • A large crowd of festival goers have gathered on the steps below the Wayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple.
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  • Hundreds of climate activists taking part in the Crude Awakening direct action march through Stratford le-Hope heading for Coryton oil refinery. The police has by now decided to stop the protest and have blocked the road but the activist take to the fields to bypass the police.<br />
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Crude Oil Awakening is a coalition of climate change activist groups. On Saturday Oct 16 they shut the only entrance to Coryton oil refinery in Essex, UK with the aim of highlighting the issues of climate change and the burning of fossil fuels. The blockade meant that a great number of trucks with oil were not able to leave the refinary during the day of action.
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  • Visitors to the Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple are enjoying the view of Kathmandu and the valley. The binoculars are for rent at a small fee.
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  • Young monks in a Tibetan monestary at the Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple. The young boys are having their hair shaved by an older monk. Two of the boys has had their head shaved and are now washing out the foam and the rest of the hair.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • Young monks in a Tibetan monestary at the Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple. The young boys are having their hair shaved by an older monk.
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  • Buddhist prayer flags criss-crossing the sky at at the Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • A young man tries to kiss a young girl while her friend is on the phone, waiting for them to finish in Portobello Road. The street is quickly emptying as the sun sets. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • Kelly MacDonald, YES campaigner. Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • Women prepare candles made out of butter and cotton used as small offerings to Buddha. The Swayambhunath temple complex, also called the Monkey Temple.
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  • Kathmandu Durbar Square. The square is on UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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  • A man striped naked to his waiste with tattoos, one of them in memory of his late nan.Portobello Road is heaving with people at sunset after the parade has finished. A large number of police in riot gear is present to controle the crowd. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • First un of voters arrive in the West End shortly after 7am. Scottish referendum in Edinburgh. All through out the day a huge number of voters turned out asll over Scotland to vote in the independence referendum. The polls were open from 7am till 10pm and the count went on through-out the night with the final results announced early in the following morning.
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  • A woman challenges two men to dance to a bongo drum band in Portobello Road. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road. Three bottoms move to the groove.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road.
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  • Tired dancers on a truck after two days of carnival. The Notting Hill Carnival has been running since 1966 and is every year attended by up to a million people. The carnival is a mix of amazing dance parades and street parties with a distinct Caribbean feel.
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  • Hackney carnival 2014. The procession started in Ridley Road and passed by the The Hackney Town Hall with thousands of spectators lining the road.
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