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Charlotte Brody is a registered nurse and activist who has spent her life making the world a safer place for people around the globe. She is a co-founder of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of over 440 organizations in more than 50 countries, working to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment.

A former Colombian prostitute narrates the story of her life and how she managed to transform it, overcoming extreme poverty, drug addiction, and sexual abuse among others.

The Arms for Arms program is a unique recycling project that turns decommissioned weapons into prosthetic limbs for victims of conflict.

Not long after marrying at twenty-one, Shafiqa lost her husband, her newly born daughter, and her leg in a rocket attack.

In most corners of the world, a woman’s work is never done. In Beyond Fatigue an Afghan woman walks miles to help her sick mother-in-law and is responsible for the next generation of young minds as she teaches them the language and lessons of the Quran.

UK Aid's Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) is helping 60,000 of Kenya's most vulnerable household to lift themselves out of poverty by giving them small cash transfers of around £8 a month.

Safety nets allow people in developing countries to improve their livelihoods in the face of multiple risks.

The Social Environment Agricultural Development Organization (SEADO) has instituted a wide range of development projects in Cambodia.

Chevron, in partnership with the Department of Social Development and Heavenly Promise, established the Dunoon Home Community Based Care Center (HCBC) to meet the needs of home-bound AIDS patients.

The people in the Mid-Magdalena region live with the legacy of a time when they had the highest homicide rate in the world. Civil conflict everywhere retards the development of civil society, and the status of women. There are many cases of sexual violence, acts of sexual abuse, child abuse, and sexual offences in general in Bolivar, Colombia. Judge González is determined to confront what she describes as Colombia's "conspiracy of silence" that surrounds the issues of sexual abuse, domestic violence, and teenage pregnancy.