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04/07/2011
Former child soldier turned rapper on how he feels about the birth of South Sudan
05/07/2011
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06/07/2011
A former child soldier returns to South Sudan as a lawyer to help build a new nation
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The woman who collected the bodies of American soldiers in Iraq
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Held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly a year - an Indian seaman tells his story
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The political editor of the now defunct British paper the News of the World
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Building a road to the outside world - life in one of Pakistan's most remote villages
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A war reporter describes how the horrors of the battlefield changed her family life
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The Pakistani barber who reunites missing children and their parents
20/07/2011
Scared to go home: the 70 year old widow who fled post election violence in Ivory Coast
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25/07/2011
Ramy Essam, the Egyptian singer-songwriter who became the iconic voice of Tahrir Square
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Fighting to save the man who tried to kill me - the extraordinary Rais Bhuiyan
27/07/2011
The parents of a British woman murdered in Japan speak out after the killer is sentenced
28/07/2011
The unemployed Pakistani man who was kidnapped by the Taliban as he tried to find work
01/08/2011
The woman imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin jail when she was just 16
02/08/2011
A mother's 20 year campaign to find her murdered son's body
03/08/2011
The tent village springing up on the streets of Tel Aviv as house prices soar
04/08/2011
The same sex couple who became one of the first to tie the knot in New York
08/08/2011
The psychiatrist treating mental health problems caused by the siege in Misrata
09/08/2011
The African migrant who survived a boat journey on which 63 others died
10/08/2011
The Armenian village deserted by its menfolk in their search for work
11/08/2011
The Afghan interpreter whose dream is to join the British army
15/08/2011
The Taiwanese prison chief on the impact of overseeing executions
16/08/2011
An escape from death at the hands of Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik
17/08/2011
Ayat al Ghormezi, the poet who became a symbol of the protests in Bahrain
18/08/2011
Hackney's heroine - the grandmother who stood up to looters during the London riots
22/08/2011
The daughter of Kandahar's assassinated mayor grieves for her father.
23/08/2011
Why a Chilean student protester has turned her school into her home