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  • As part of the HCT programme in rural Makurdi EVA staff hand out their flyer advocating their My QandA service. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Children are registered before having their HIV test. The children are all particular vulnerable, either single or double orphans or from families suffering fro terminal illnesses such as HIV. They come from the surrounding rural district near Makurdi. That day 120 children were tested, all negative. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria...Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • As part of the HCT programme in rural Makurdi EVA staff hand out their flyer advocating their My QandA service. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria. Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls made up for the night. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Bridjet Mbahiga with her children. She is mother of 4 and runs a subsistence plot of land to feed the kids yams, agash and rice. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls using their mobile phone in rural Makurdi in Benue state. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls using their mobile phone in rural Makurdi in Benue state. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Volunteer Blessing test the children for HIV/Aids in a school in rural Makurdi as part of EVA's EVA Youth World HCT programme. 120 children were tested and non of them positive. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A small girl and her friends are queuing up to be HIV tested as part of EVA's EVA Youth World HCT session in rural Markurdi.  EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Doofan Yende, an EVA volunteer greets children coming to be HIV tested as part of EVA Youth World. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls made up for the night. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A girl is heading home in the dying light in rural Makurdi in Benue Sate, Nigeria.Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Chinyere is talking to a 12 year old girls fromLagos. The girls called rather than texted to ask if she can get Aids from hugging someone.  The help line programme is called My Question my Answer(MY QandA) and young people can ask any questions related to sexual health or relationships. Most questions are dealt with via text which is a free service but calls can also be made if the questions raised are too complicated or severe. Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Chinelo is working on the support help line set up by EVA. The programme is called My Question my Answer(MY QandA) and young people can ask any questions related to sexual health or relationships. Most questions are dealt with via text which is a free service but calls can also be made if the questions raised are too complicated or severe. Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • The team and children after a HCT session in rural Makurdi. All 120 children turned out to be negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • EVA volunteers fill in the paper work with the results of the HIV tests. All 120 tested children turned out to be negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Children waiting to have their finger pricked to draw blood to test them for HIV/Aids. Volunteer Blessing and Doofan process the 120 children efficiently and kindly. All tests proved negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Aongo, 5 years old, wait his turn to be HIV tested by Blessing and Doofan. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Children waiting to have their finger pricked to draw blood to test them for HIV/Aids. Volunteer Blessing and Doofan process the 120 children efficiently and kindly. All tests proved negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Aonga, 5 years old is greeted by EVA staff.  Aonga is one of 120 children to be tested for HIV. Aonga's test came out negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Doofan Yende squeezes out a drop of blood from a child's finger to perform a HIV/Aids speed test. 120 children were tested in an afternoon, all of them proved negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • EVA trains doctors,nurses and health workers in how to be more open and welcoming to young people so that young people will not be afraid of coming to see their GP about sexual health issues. .Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Carers of vulnerable children and EVA staff, Enock Nyakundi, a volunteer from Kenya work on a new constitution for the carer support group in rural Makurdi. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Volunteer Doofan read the outcome of a speed test on one of the 120 children at the HCT session. All 120 children turned out to be negative.  EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A quick prick to the finger to draw blood to do a HIV speed test. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • MAKE TEA, Savethe NHS...The Health and Care Bill has been passed by Parliament and is due to go to the House of Lords. In protest against the bill which aim to deconstruct and privatise large parts of the NHS UK Uncut activists together with health workers and trade unionists blocked the Westminster Bridge from 1pm til 5.30pm.
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  • MAKE TEA, Savethe NHS...The Health and Care Bill has been passed by Parliament and is due to go to the House of Lords. In protest against the bill which aim to deconstruct and privatise large parts of the NHS UK Uncut activists together with health workers and trade unionists blocked the Westminster Bridge from 1pm til 5.30pm.
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  • Nick Danby.<br />
“We have just completed our second anniversary of Cuadrilla being here in Preston New Road. As far as we can tell they haven't done any fracking since end of November. We are waiting for an announcement of what is going on, a lot of equipment has come off the site. We think they are going to embark upon extended flow testing but we dont know for sure. That in itself really means the company who say they want to build a good relationship with the community is doing nothing of the sort, they are being very tight lipped, not serving the community well and they are only interested, as far as I can see, in keeping their investors and share holders sweet. We think the tide is turning against fracking. At the weekend two national news papers had front page headlines saying that fracking is a dead duck. We fought for two years and we will carry on as long as we need to to put this industry to bed. Fracking should not be the future, the future should be clean and green.”<br />
It is Green Monday and first week of the second anniversary of Cuadrilla's fracking exploration in Preston New Road. For two years activists have been keeping an eye on the fracking company Cuadrilla from the roadside of the fracking site in Preston New Road. The company has not actively fracked since November and is currently seemingly busy emptiyng the site for heavy equipment. Prostesters and climate protectors are still by the gates trying to work out Cuadrilla's intensions.
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  • Climate Camp by Kingsnorth 2008.Camp for Climate Action is a movement made up of a lose network of people and environmental groups, wanting to stop climate change.  Through the Climate Camp they highlight issues such as aviation emission and CO2 emissions from coal power plants.  The Camp for Climate Camp wants to create a forum for people to discuss, learn and to act on climate change and to put pressure on the UK government to change its policies on polloting industries to make them commit to much more green policies. .The Climate Camp at Kingsnorth is the third camp running, previous years were by Heathrow, London and Drax coal power plant in Yorkshire. ..Living on the camp is as sustainable as possible, toilets are compost toilets where all human waste goes into wheelibins and taken away to used as manure.  This toilet is the one with the best view, over the fields.
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  • In Dowe district. Mothers and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA). The three small girls have not been cut and Waliadoud, woman in blue, has got three daughters all not cut. Waliadoud lost her first baby girl due to FGM and has since stopped the practice. They are all advocates of stopping the FGM practice and the TBA's have stopped provided the service to women whom they help giving birth. Often its the TBA who will perform the FGM as well as act as midwife.. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.
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  • In Dowe district. Mothers and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA). The three small girls have not been cut and Waliadoud, woman in blue, has got three daughters all not cut. Waliadoud lost her first baby girl due to FGM and has since stopped the practice. They are all advocates of stopping the FGM practice and the TBA's have stopped provided the service to women whom they help giving birth. Often its the TBA who will perform the FGM as well as act as midwife.. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.
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  • 61/2 months Marcolina is fed mashed rice with bananas by her mother Maria as part of  a Mother Support Group session where breast feeding mothers with 4 months plus babies learn about food supplements. Maria has bee doing .exclusive breast feeding but has started complimentary feeding. She cooks rice and veggies and beans. .She is a member of mother's support group where they share knowledge. Every month she visits house holds of pregnant women to give advice. Her husband is a farmer, he grows veggies and sell some and feed the family as well. Maria has been trained by Alola, she understands the importance of nutritious food but its her first attendants at this workshop. She has got 4 other children, oldest is 12.  .Infant mortality rates are very high in Timor-Leste and one of the reasons for that is poor nutrition. Alola advocate breast feeding till at least two years old and teach women about nutritious supplements such as boiled and mashed rice w vegetables and eggs.  Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a competitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years. The wedding is a big day for everybody with lots of dancing and celebration...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Sian Charnley photographed in Bristol, 3rd Nov, awaiting trial. She was arrested with 14 fellow protesters for blocking the traffic near Heathrow in protest against the Heathrow airport expansion. She pleaded not guilty and was subsequently sentenced 12months conditional discharge Feb 7th.<br />
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Sian represented herself in court and part of her statement in court went as follows: "I'm not going to speak for long because everyone in this room knows we are in trouble. So do the international conferences and 97% of scientists. When you are in a hole, you don't keep on digging. Which is precisely what we'll be doing as far climate change is concerned if we expand Heathrow.<br />
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I'm a mother and grandmother. I care about the social injustices that mean that people least responsible for climate change are the first to be suffering its effects, including the increased likelihood of conflict......<br />
........ I've given birth and I've sat with someone while they died. I know that in both instances, the idea of continuity through future generations becomes extremely important. We are jeopardising this if we continue to go headlong into a changing climate.<br />
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I expect to be found guilty because I did lie in the road. But morally I need to withdraw my consent from the madness that protects the right to fly over the right to survive as a species. Breaking the law is not only a way to withdraw my consent but also a way to break the taboo on talking about climate change." Portrait is part of a long term.project on climate change, activism and civil disobedience in the UK.
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  • Sheila Menon photographed in Hackeny Downs, London. <br />
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Sheila Menon, 44, from London, is a filmmaker and environmental campaigner. She has been working on a range of climate-related issues for the last 5 years, both on a local and global level. She volunteers for a variety of environmental and social justice campaign groups, both at NGO and grassroots level. She has a BSc degree in Maths & Business Management from Kings College London.<br />
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Sheila Menon is one of the Heathrow 13 and faces a prison sentence for staging a peaceful protest at Heathrow airport in 2015.<br />
This is one image of thirteen from the series The Plane Stupid Heathrow 13.<br />
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The 13 climate activists from the group Plane Stupid staged a peaceful protest at Heathrow Airport in June 2015. The protest was against a proposed expansion of Heathrow Airport and aviation in general which the 13 activists see as a direct contribution to climate change. The Heathrow 13 cut through the perimeter fences at Heathrow airport and stopped air traffic for six hours by locking themselves together on one of the runways. They were all subsequently arrested and charged with aggravated trespass and being beside an airdrome without permission and were all found guilty as charged at Willesden Magistrate's Court in January 2016.  At the time when found guilty the judge announced they would face prison when sentenced. <br />
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These portraits were done in the time between conviction and subsequent sentencing at a time when  they all faced a real possibility of going to jail for up to 6 months for their actions. On Feb 24th however all 13 walked out of court with a 6 weeks prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 120 hour community service on average as punishment.
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  • Filipino women sit and chat and share food on a walk way across a busy main road in Central on a Sunday, their weekly day off.  Hong Kong has a huge population of Filipinos, mostly woman who work as domestic workers in the business community. Most of the women have no private accomodation so on their days off Central Hong Kong is heaving with women who meet in puclic to socialize. <br />
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Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since the hand-over from the United Kingdom in 1997 under the principle of "one country, two systsems".  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it the most vertivcal city in the world. Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies. The Hong Kong civil society is highly regulated but has at the same time one of the most lassiez-faire economies with low taxation and free trade. Civil unrest and political dissent is unusual but in 2014 the Umbrella Movenment took to the streets of Hong Kong demanding democracy and universal suffrage. 93 % are ethnic Chinese, mostly Cantonese speaking.
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  • Filipino women sit and chat in the street in Central on a Sunday, their weekly day off.  Hong Kong has a huge population of Filipinos, mostly woman who work as domestic workers in the business community. Most of the women have no private accomodation so on their days off Central Hong Kong is heaving with women who meet in puclic to socialize. <br />
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Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since the hand-over from the United Kingdom in 1997 under the principle of "one country, two systsems".  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it the most vertivcal city in the world. Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies. The Hong Kong civil society is highly regulated but has at the same time one of the most lassiez-faire economies with low taxation and free trade. Civil unrest and political dissent is unusual but in 2014 the Umbrella Movenment took to the streets of Hong Kong demanding democracy and universal suffrage. 93 % are ethnic Chinese, mostly Cantonese speaking.
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  • As part of the remaining Umbrella Movement tent camp a couple of people offer free screen prints with art work related to the political movement to any passers-by. The pop-up screen printing is set up on a small table outside the public toilets under a fly-over. The Umbrella Movement and tent camps were cleared off the streets shortly before Christmas by police but a small number of tents have been allowed to remain outside the Govenment offices. <br />
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Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since the hand-over from the United Kingdom in 1997 under the principle of "one country, two systsems".  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it the most vertivcal city in the world. Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies. The Hong Kong civil society is highly regulated but has at the same time one of the most lassiez-faire economies with low taxation and free trade. Civil unrest and political dissent is unusual but in 2014 the Umbrella Movenment took to the streets of Hong Kong demanding democracy and universal suffrage. 93 % are ethnic Chinese, mostly Cantonese speaking.
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  • Hong Kong has a huge population of Filipinos, mostly woman who work as domestic workers in the business community. Here Filipino women celebrate Christmas together out door in downtown Hong Kong, most Filipinos are Catholics.   <br />
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Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since the hand-over from the United Kingdom in 1997 under the principle of "one country, two systsems".  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it the most vertivcal city in the world. Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies. The Hong Kong civil society is highly regulated but has at the same time one of the most lassiez-faire economies with low taxation and free trade. Civil unrest and political dissent is unusual but in 2014 the Umbrella Movenment took to the streets of Hong Kong demanding democracy and universal suffrage. 93 % are ethnic Chinese, mostly Cantonese speaking.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • Kenya.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Tanzania.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Venezuela.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Libya.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Togo.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Indonesia.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Trinidad and Tobago.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years. The wedding is a big day for everybody with lots of dancing and celebration...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Bp-or-not-BP stage a splash mob art intervention at the British Museum in protest against the continued BP sponsorship of the exhibition 'Sunken Cities' 25th of September 2016.  BP pirates calling for more oil exploration. A flock of merfolk and BP pirates roamed the museum as well as a kraken, a giant sea monster. It is the the twentieth intervention by the activist group BP-or-not-BP against the museum's BP oil sponsorship. All the meterial was smuggled in passed security and as usual the museum let them do their piece in peace.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • A first glimpse of Aurora, the double-decker-bus-size polar bear puppet specially commissioned by Greenpeace to lead an Arctic-inspired street parade to the London HQ of oil giant Shell on 15 September. The three-tonne marionette bear will be operated from the inside by a team of 15 puppeteers, including artists from West End blockbuster War Horse, and will be hauled on ropes by 30 volunteers along a route including the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. The giant bear, which is made of replica and reclaimed ship parts as well as recycled materials, will be carrying in her fur the names of over 3 and half million people who have joined the global movement to protect the Arctic from industrial exploitation. The names will be delivered to Shell’s HQ in London on 15 September as part of a global day of action to protect the Arctic.
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  • Phillippines.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • Gambia.<br />
Mis(sing) Representation was taken in 2008 in what is known as Diplomatic Drive. I had walked up and down the drive from hotel Bolingo to the United Nations headquarters for 5 days, working for the UN but with not much to do apart from walking up and down the drive.  That was before the UN building was bombed by Boko Haram killing 21 people. And before the American embassy put up their forward defence and blocked the road to pedestrians without a cause. I was back in Abuja in 2012 and as far as I could get to see some of the plots are still overgrown land - others do have buildings erected, but most still not quite there. However, a stocky CIA guy stopped me from revisiting most of the depicted sites stating national security was at stake.Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, was officially inaugurated in December 1991 and is placed bang in the middle of the country. Lagos is still the financial hub of the nation but most admin has been moved to the relatively new-built city. Diplomatic Drive was designed with the UN HQ at the dead-end of the road and with embassies all along the wayside. With usual Nigerian beaurocratic effiency all of the plots of land along the road were allocated to various nations and in 2008 most of these plots still lie empty. Did they by default constitute foreign land and by that command diplomatic status? Could one ask for political asylum stepping into these bushy bits of overgrown scrubland? Would one need a passport to cross? No-one seemed to know but nobody ever squatted the land or ventured in to cut through to the neighboring bustling streets.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Dixon is cooking his dinner, cows spare ribs. Meat is an important part of the Maasai's diet, as well as maze and milk. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Dixon is cooking his dinner, cows spare ribs. Meat is an important part of the Maasai's diet, as well as maze and milk. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Around 40 activists dressed as animals invaded the PR firm Bell Pottinger in central London to expose their ties with fracking as part of a long running campaign against fracking by the activist group Reclaim the Power called Break the Chain.<br />
The activist spend a short while in the lobby  with zebras throwing leaves, monkeys spreading animal manure and a squid spraying ‘ink’ on the windows before leaving peacefully.<br />
Bell Pottinger currently represent Centrica which is a major fracking investor in the UK according to the group's press release and the company has in the past helped the fracking company Quadrilla restore their reputation.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a competitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. They have their own boma near by and in between dances they go back to their huts to rest and to chat...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Lost in the Stars at the Union Chapel. <br />
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The Highbury Opera Theatre is putting on  a fully-staged London premiere of Lost in the Stars, Kurt Weill's final 1949 musical, with words by Maxwell Anderson, based on Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country. The show includes children from Gayhurst Community school in Hackney and schools from London Borough of Islington. The cast is led by South African operatic baritone Denver Martin-Smith and Zimbawean Lucky Moyo, who has toured the world as the lead voice of the popular a capella group Black Umfolozi. The large chorus is anchored by Eclectic Voices. The production is conducted by Scott Stroman and directored by Jean Lacornerie. <br />
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The Highbury Opera Theatre is putting on  a fully-staged London premiere of Lost in the Stars, Kurt Weill's final 1949 musical, with words by Maxwell Anderson, based on Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country. The show includes children from Gayhurst Community school in Hackney and schools from London Borough of Islington. The cast is led by South African operatic baritone Denver Martin-Smith and Zimbawean Lucky Moyo, who has toured the world as the lead voice of the popular a capella group Black Umfolozi. The large chorus is anchored by Eclectic Voices. The production is conducted by Scott Stroman and directored by Jean Lacornerie.<br />
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The Highbury Opera Theatre's London premiere of Lost in the Stars by Kurt Weill. The show includes children from Gayhurst Community school in Hackney and schools from London Borough of Islington. The cast is led by South African operatic baritone Denver Martin-Smith and Zimbawean Lucky Moyo, who has toured the world as the lead voice of the popular a capella group Black Umfolozi. The large chorus is anchored by Eclectic Voices. The production is conducted by Scott Stroman and directored by Jean Lacornerie.
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  • Hong Kong (香港; "Fragrant Harbour"), officially known as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since the hand-over from the United Kingdom in 1997 under the principle of "one country, two systsems".  7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it the most vertivcal city in the world. Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres along side London and New York, it has one of the highest income per capita in the world as well the moste severe income inequality amongst advanced economies. The Hong Kong civil society is highly regulated but has at the same time one of the most lassiez-faire economies with low taxation and free trade. Civil unrest and political dissent is unusual but in 2014 the Umbrella Movenment took to the streets of Hong Kong demanding democracy and universal suffrage. 93 % are ethnic Chinese, mostly Cantonese speaking.
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  • Muncia is putting his baby daughter back in her cot in the hospital. She is 6 days old and under observation because two previous babies by his wife Laura died as new born. Laura and Muncia believe they died due to bad breast milk but the hospital does not agree and doctors are trying to work out why. Infant mortality rates are very high in Timor-Leste and one of the reasons for that is poor nutrition. Alola advocate breast feeding till at least two years old and teach women about nutritious supplements such as boiled and mashed rice w vegetables and eggs.  Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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