by Helen Stanger | 22 Jan 2018 | Other
Rising seas caused by climate change are seeping inside a United States nuclear waste dump on a remote and low-lying Pacific atoll, flushing out radioactive substances left behind from some of the world’s largest atomic weapons tests. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the...
by Helen Stanger | 22 Jan 2018 | Other
We have heard via the International Campaign to Ban Landmines of a landmine “accident”. On September 26th 2017, four members of the same family died from the explosion of an anti-personnel mine in the town of Murrotone. Two people died on the spot and others on the...
by Helen Stanger | 1 Oct 2017 | Other
Human misery is rarely straightforward, and more often than not, is compounded by other factors. And so it is for the displaced Rohingya Muslim people fleeing for their lives following attacks on their villages, now being assailed also by torrential monsoon rain. Now...
by Helen Stanger | 25 May 2017 | Other
After 5 years of brutal occupation by German forces, at last Denmark has the upper hand. Opening scenes show long lines of defeated German troops shuffling along a road, while a Danish sergeant fluent in German oversees them from his vehicle. What causes him to pick...
by Helen Stanger | 12 Dec 2016 | Other
These days petitions are so commonplace that we receive multiple e-mail petitions every day, some of which we may click on to show our casual support, before forgetting them in favour of the next thing. But think back 25 years and things were very different. In those...
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