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The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya Rakini will stand up for herself, and you. From an early age she's fought for what's right. As a ch…
3 years, 2 months ago
Learning to live with the voices in my head
Debra Lampshire started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control.The voices became so visceral and intense that Debra ha…
3 years, 2 months ago
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
For most of his life, Uganda had been unstable, but he'd been …
3 years, 2 months ago
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
He was next in line to a centuries-old royal dynasty in the India…
3 years, 2 months ago
The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history.
A phone call out of the blue had set him on his hunt for the Clotilda, an A…
3 years, 2 months ago
Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
Nakuset only goes by one name and it means "The Sun" in her …
3 years, 3 months ago
Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old.
He had been living with relatives after his parents migrated…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Palestinian tapes, part 2
In 2020, Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music in an abandoned building. Out of thousands of dusty cassettes there was …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a…
3 years, 3 months ago
I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why. Nikki awaited trial in solitary confinement, but her father searched for an…
3 years, 4 months ago