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Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin hunger strike

Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin a hunger strike in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to demand their pensions are re-instated....

by Zoya Shu Зоя Шу in Ukraine on 01/12/2011

Society

Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Great Famine

About 2 thousand people marched in Kiev to the National Memorial of Holodomor victims to commemorate the children who died during the artificial...

by Kost Bezginsky in Ukraine on 26/11/2011

Society

Feeding The 5000 fills the stomachs of school children - London

Children from East Sheen Junior School enjoy the free food at the Feeding The 5000 event in London's Trafalgar Square. Children and locals crowd...

by Paul Parkinson in United Kingdom on 18/11/2011

BREAKING NEWS

01/12/2011 - Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin hunger strike - Ukraine - Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin...
26/11/2011 - Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Great Famine - Ukraine - About 2 thousand people marched in Kiev...
18/11/2011 - Feeding The 5000 fills the stomachs of school children - London - United Kingdom - Children from East Sheen Junior School...
18/11/2011 - Mayor passes out food at London's 'Feed The 5,000' - United Kingdom - The 'Feed The 5,000' free...
18/04/2011 - Iranian refugees on hunger strike in London - United Kingdom - Failed asylum seekers enter their 14th...
11/04/2011 - Demonstration in support of prisoners on hunger strike - Santiago - Chile - Today marked an end to the peaceful...
08/04/2011 - Candlelight march in support of Anna Hazare - Amritsar - India - Indian people take part in a...
06/04/2011 - Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death charges into a second day - New Delhi - India - Social activist and Gandhian Anna...
01/04/2011 - Survivors from the 1972 Andes air crash speak in Toronto - Canada - Two of the sixteen survivors from the...
07/03/2011 - Man eats from a gutter with the birds - Dhaka - Bangladesh - For survival, a man takes food from a...

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Man eats from a gutter with the birds - Dhaka
For survival, a man takes food from a garbage bin and the street gutter, which are generally for crows. The man and the birds share the debris to fill their stomachs. Bangladesh. 7th Ma...
Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin hunger strike
Chernobyl catastrophe liquidators begin a hunger strike in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to demand their pensions are re-instated. Ukraine. 1st December 2011
78th anniversary of the Great Famine
About 2 thousand people marched in Kiev to the National Memorial of Holodomor victims to commemorate the children who died during the artificial famine in 1932-1933. Kiev, Ukraine. 26th...
Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Great Famine
About 2 thousand people marched in Kiev to the National Memorial of Holodomor victims to commemorate the children who died during the artificial famine in 1932-1933. Kiev, Ukraine. 26th...
Mayor passes out food at London's 'Feed The 5,000'
The 'Feed The 5,000' free lunch event took place in London's Trafalgar Square. Mayor Boris Johnson passes out food to attendees. UK. 18th November 2011
Feeding The 5000 fills the stomachs of school children - London
Children from East Sheen Junior School enjoy the free food at the Feeding The 5000 event in London's Trafalgar Square. Children and locals crowd the square holding with bowls of fo...
Globalization And Our Children
GLOBALIZATION AND CHILD SLAVERY
E-waste - Leftovers of an irresponsible technological advance
Electronic waste corresponds to the major large-scale residue production, with the fastest-growing rate in the category. Agbogbloshie has become the world’s newest electronic dumping gr...
Tamils hold a Trafalgar Square Vigil to commemorate the dead
A rally and vigil was held to commemorate 40,000 lives lost in Sri Lanka and also to focus the world's attention on the ongoing plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka. London, UK. 18th May ...
Armenians ask UK to recognise Armenian Genocide
More than a thousand members of the Armenian community in the UK marched through London to Downing Street, calling on the UK government to recognise the Turkish Genocide of Armenians in...
Iranian refugees on hunger strike in London
Failed asylum seekers enter their 14th day of hunger strike. Strikers are holding the protest in a tent erected on the pavement in front of Amnesty International in Clerkenwell.
Demonstration in support of prisoners on hunger strike - Santiago
Today marked an end to the peaceful hunger strike held by a group youths in front of the Chilean capital. The youth demanded the release of 10 anarchists unjustly imprisoned by the Chil...
Candlelight march in support of Anna Hazare - Amritsar
Indian people take part in a candlelight march in support of the social activist Anna Hazare in the northern Indian city of Amritsar. Hazare's fast-unto-death protest against gover...
Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death charges into a second day - New Delhi
Social activist and Gandhian Anna Hazare went on with his fast-unto-death for a second day demanding a greater public role and more powers in the anti-corruption Lok Pal Bill. Hazare is...
Survivors from the 1972 Andes air crash speak in Toronto
Two of the sixteen survivors from the Uruguayan place crash of 1972 in the Andes travel to Canada for the first time ever to tell their story to community. The Andes flight is known sti...
Twenty Day Hunger Strike – Caracas
This Saturday, 29 young people who are on hunger strike at the Organization of American States headquarters in Caracas completed 20 days in protest. Caracas, Venezuela. 19/02/2011.
The Forgotten - Dwellers of Kabul Slums
Deported from asylum countries, affected by war, dwellers of Kabul's slums and shanty towns are a helpless population of Afghanistan, disregarded by their own government and most o...
Sevastopol
Sevastopol, the main base of Russian Black Sea fleet in Ukraine. Ukraine, 01/11/2010
For memory of Holodomor in Ukraine
there was a day of memory for victims of Holodomor in Ukraine of 33th in Kyiv. Ex-president Victor Yuschenko and ex-prime-minister Yulia Timoschenko took part at ceremony. Kyiv, Ukraine...
Khmer Rouge Commander receives prison sentence
Former Khmer Rouge Prison warden ''Dutch'' receives his sentence after eleven years in jail. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 26/07/2010.