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World Service,20 Oct 2011,28 mins

20/10/2011

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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, Hind Ahmas, the first french woman fined for wearing the niqab - the full face veil - explains why she's fighting against a new law which forbids people from covering their face in public in France. Also, Pakistani businessman Faisal Kapadia describes how he used social media to organise a campaign to help flood victims in Sindh province. And award-winning American chef, Gina Keatley on how a childhood in poverty inspired her to take to the streets of New York to campaign against junk food

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