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February 25th, 2010
One of the things we feel strongly at duckrabbit is the importance of the web in giving people a voice who otherwise wouldn’t be heard. Its important if the world is ever going to move on from the belief that what keeps people alive in developing countries is our pity and our cash.
The Universal Declaration [...]
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January 20th, 2010
Well done to Pete Masters at MSF for producing this thoughtful audio slideshow just a couple of hours after conducting the interview with the MSF surgeon Paul McMaster. It gives you a clear insight both of the need for help and just where your money is going.
Proof that giving to MSF [...]
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January 13th, 2010
“Our original mission was to provide airborn medical relief in the developing world but since 1992 we’ve been heavily involved in providing care here in the United States.”
Stan Brock, founder Remote Area Medical
Please do check out AP photographer Evan Vucci’s stunning multimedia feature about a charity providing medical care in the USA. This [...]
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December 25th, 2009
Very roughly some 2000 years ago we nailed some bloke called Jesus to a tree.
Nothing new about that. Nailing people to trees was a rather effective form of crowd control.
Since then though a lot of people have been following this Jesus bloke. One of his oft quoted mantras was treat other people people as you [...]
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Ciara posted this on
December 22nd, 2009
It’s hard to believe that Saturday will mark five years since the devastating south Asian Tsunami which claimed some 300,000 lives. To mark this anniversary – hardly one to celebrate – DFID, the department for international development, dispatched Panos photographer Abbie Trayler Smith to show how British money has helped rebuild shattered lives in Banda [...]
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December 14th, 2009
(click on photo, the video player will load, then click again to play)
It’s one of those moments you don’t forget.
This term I’ve been a guest lecturer at Birmingham City University. I sat twenty students down in front of one of the four videos we’ve been producing for MSF (more of that in a [...]
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November 30th, 2009
The great Stan Banos first emailed me to alert me to a photo story doing the rounds about women who have been attacked with acid. The act is cowardly and the response from the authorities is usually non-existent.
A page of the photos by Emilio Morenatti is showing on Tampabay.com. I struggle a bit with [...]
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November 20th, 2009
The headline on the BBC website reads:
In Pictures: Rebuilding Wrecked Lives After Sierra Leone’s civil war
Sounds interesting?
Then I flicked to the set and found another story to the one sold to me in the headline.
There’s nothing technically wrong with Nick Danzinger’s black and white pictures of people from Sierra Leone except that it [...]
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November 13th, 2009
Its brilliant that Oxfam have put so much effort into creating an online documentary about the effects of climate change on the people of Bangladesh.
On the upside Oxfam used a local media team who were on the scene when cyclone Aila hit. Respect. There’s also a clear way of responding by sending a message to [...]
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November 8th, 2009
A Developing Story, a new website, which duckrabbit has helped get up and running, has been born:
Hopefully the title reflects our desire to create an open space on the web in which stories and images that explore the richness and complexity of an unequal world can find a home.
We will also be campaigning for the [...]
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October 6th, 2009
Amnesty International is an organisation that duckrabbit fully supports. One of the best ways of achieving a more equal world is to stop human rights abuses and that’s exactly what Amnesty sets out to do.
Brilliant then to see how highly they regard photography as a tool to achieve social justice. duckrabbit will be speaking [...]
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September 11th, 2009
Two of the best are The Open Society Institute and Human Rights Watch.
Why are they so good? Because they are creating seriously good journalism for all the right reasons. They want to educate and inform people about what’s really going on in the world, not just tap them up for cash.
Ed Kashi’s work in the [...]
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September 8th, 2009
MISS HIV STIGMA FREE 2007 BOTSWANA..TSHEBETSO THOBOLO comes on stage at the MISS HIV pageant to great applause. (c) David White
Stories about HIV and AIDS in Africa are often presented as either one of polar opposites. There are the news outlets who tend to publish negative stories, sometimes with a picture of a [...]
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