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01/12/2010

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The Afghan plastic surgeon on treating women who deliberately burn themselves

Dr Shafiqa Eanin, the Afghan plastic surgeon on treating women who deliberately burn themselves.

Dr Shafiqa Eanin
Dr Shafiqa Eanin is a plastic surgeon at Herat's burn hospital. Her most serious cases are those of women who try to burn themselves to death as a way of escaping from violent marriages and other firms of domestic abuse.

Carlos Macuacua 
6 foot 7 Carlos Macuacua is Mozambique's first native dive instructor. His tells Lucy Ash about his personal campaign against  shark-finning, a practise whereby local fishermen catch sharks, cut off their fins and throw them back in the water. By showing local fishermen a film called Shiver he's hoping to put an end to it. 

Julia Romp
Julia Romp's son George is autistic.  Until he was ten years old, Julia had never seen him smile. Then one day a stray cat called Ben arrived and turned their lives upside down. Ben became George's best friend and George expressed emotions he'd never expressed before. But then Ben went missing. Devastated Julia started a countrywide cat hunt to find Ben. 
Julia's book " A Friend Like Ben" is out now.

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