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Bhopal: the long flight from justice
Three decades after the Union Carbide disaster, the campaign for justice for the victims, and the effigy-burning, goes on.
July 2, 2015
Trident is a disaster waiting to happen, says nuclear whistleblower
Trident submarines are plagued by serious security lapses, beset by multiple safety blunders and “a disaster waiting to happen”, according to a nuclear weapons engineer turned whistleblower now being hunted by the police.
May 20, 2015
The strange death of the Scottish election poster
Of Scotland’s 32 council areas just four – Shetland, the Highlands, the Western Isles, and Argyll and Bute – now allow political posters on council property.
February 28, 2015
Exposed – human trafficking for the sex industry in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso in West Africa has one of the worst human trafficking problems in the world with hundreds of victims forced into prostitution. Many young girls and boys are destined for Europe's sex industry but the authorities are ill equipped to deal with the problem and corruption is rife.
July 14, 2014
Revealed: the government’s plan to play down Fukushima
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima…
June 30, 2011