An intensive residential summer school is open to British Muslim men and women in UK between the ages of 20 and 29. Candidates should be British citizens who have already demonstrated leadership qualities in their current work or extra-curricular activities. OCIS bursaries are available for successful applicants and, further information can be found here.

VICE travels to the West Bank for the first Palestinian National Youth Week. Would it turn out to be more than just an elaborate PR event?

The National Union of Journalists' Manchester and Salford branch has launched a campaign in support of a political journalist who fled Iraq in 2010 after being threatened as a result of newspaper articles he wrote at the time of the elections. 

A key demand of the Algerian hostage takers is the release of a Pakistani mother-of-three currently serving an 86-year sentence in a US prison. So why has her case gone virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media? Journalist Yvonne Ridley, herself a former hostage, reports.