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Back to SearchThe assassination of the Mirabal sisters
The three Mirabal sisters were leading figures in the Dominican Republic's opposition movement against the dictator General Rafael Trujillo. They wer…
4 years, 10 months ago
Sudan's October Revolution
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime, plus the hunt for former Serbian leader Radovan Karadžić later convict…
4 years, 10 months ago
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
In 2008, the brutal murder of Eudy Simelane shocked South Africa and highlighted the widespread violence faced by South African women and members of …
4 years, 10 months ago
When Eritrea silenced its critics
An hour of first hand accounts from the past. Starting with a crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea from twenty years ago, plus memories of the 1…
4 years, 10 months ago
The child environmental activist of the 1990s
To mark the start of the UN Climate Change Conference, or COP26, taking place in Glasgow in the UK, we’re looking back at the history of our awarenes…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years. Also the first transgender priest in the Church of England, WW2 Polish ref…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
Under legislation known as the Hudood Ordinances introduced in 1979, a nearly blind teenaged rape survivor was jailed herself for having sex outside …
4 years, 11 months ago
Black history: Britain and race
As part of our British black history coverage we look back at the racism faced by London's first black policeman from his own colleagues. We also hea…
4 years, 11 months ago
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
In 1971 photographer Claudia Andujar began documenting the lives of a remote indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. Her photographs helped …
5 years ago
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Eyewitnesses remember the Westgate mall attack in Kenya, the 1990s 'miracle water' craze in Mexico, and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. Plus t…
5 years ago