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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
Sudan's October Revolution
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
When Eritrea silenced its critics
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
Black history: Britain and race
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
Kenya: Westgate mall attack
Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy