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Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets by their families. There, they desperately try to earn enough to live by going through rubbish dumps. They are easy targets for predators, and sexual abuse is an every day occurrence.

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets, where they are easy targets for predators

Nigeria: The Plight of the Witch Children

The Indian state of Sikkim has banned pesticides completely, allowing only organic farming. The results: healthy food and healthy soils.

India: Sikkim - A Green New World

Fawzia Koofi is an extraordinary woman: the only female party leader in Afghanistan and also the country's first female MP. Since the Taliban's return to power, she has been forced to continue her fight for women’s rights in exile.

Since the Taliban's return to power, Fawzia Koofi has been forced to continue her fight for women’s rights in exile.

A Feminist and the Taliban

With nearly 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, India is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 destroyed entire families and is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

The second wave that swept through the subcontinent in Spring 2021 is estimated to have left behind more than 100,000 orphans.

India: Covid Orphans

Khartoum, autumn 2021: The Sudanese capital has been in turmoil since General Burhan ousted the civilian government in a coup. Sara, 23, a leftist student, has participated in all the struggles of the Sudanese revolution.

Khartoum, autumn 2021: The Sudanese capital has been in turmoil since General Burhan ousted the civilian government in a coup. 

Sudan: Women in Revolt

Venezuelans have been living through a deep economic crisis for several years with food shortages coupled with hyperinflation. Press freedom is also in peril as the government cracks down on independent media. But some young journalists are going offline, giving news reports live from city buses.

Desperate to provide independent news, some young journalists are giving news bulletins offline on board city buses.

Venezuela: Desperate for News

In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover, all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico is one of the windiest areas in the world. It has become the Eldorado of the large multinational European electricity companies. EDF already owns three wind farms comprising several hundred wind turbines lined up as far as the eye can see. But locals aren't happy.

The Isthmus of Tehuantepec has attracted European electricity multinationals. But locals aren't happy

Mexico: Winds of Anger

Abdul fled Afghanistan six years ago and found asylum in France. In the course of his journey during which he crossed twelve countries over two years, he developed a passion for photography. In Calais he is documenting the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel to Britain, in the hope of a better life.

In Calais Abdul documents the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel in hope of a better life.

An Afghan Refugee in Calais

La Colifata radio station broadcasts from a famous mental hospital in the Argentinian capital and it’s the patients themselves that present the shows. The station is the brainchild of psychologist Alfredo Oivera to give marginal people a voice.

La Colifata radio station broadcasts from a famous mental hospital in the Argentinian capital and it’s the patients themselves that present the shows.

Argentina's Radio Crazy

Indonesia is famous for its rich mineral deposits that attract mining companies the world over. But mining is notoriously bad for the environment, using up water and destroying vast swathes of natural habitat. And on top of the legal mining companies, are the scores of small scale, illegal miners who work in dangerous conditions. 

Indonesia's stunning natural landscape is being blighted by mining - but Europe needs those minerals for its computers and mobile phones

Indonesia: The Cost of Illegal Mining

Almost 10 years ago, Turkey opened its doors wide to more than 3 million Syrian refugees. But for those Afghans who fled the Taliban to power this summer and are trying to cross into Turkey, the welcome couldn't be more different.

After Turkey welcomed more than 3 million Syrian refugees, Afghans are not welcome

Turkey: Afghan Refugees Not Welcome

Russian communists dream of rising as a credible alternative to Putin and his United Russia party. With 160,000 members today, it is still a long way from its former size before its collapse in 1991. Modern day communists style themselves as the party that denounces social inequalities and Russia's nouveau riche, while renouncing old school communism such as tight economic controls.

Communism in Russia is staging a comeback, as disappointment over Putin's United Russia party grows.

Russia: Communist Comeback

Cameroon, a Central African country of 27 million inhabitants, has been spared the worst of the coronavirus crisis. It's only had around 100,000 cases and less than 2000 deaths. That's an incidence rate 50 times lower than that of European countries. But herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished. 

Herbal homemade 'remedies' to covid have flourished in Cameroon

Cameroon: Anti-Covid Witches

Idlib is already weakened by a decade of war, but now its residents must also face the devastation of the coronavirus. In this overcrowded enclave, social distancing is impossible. One in two people here live in camps, and humanitarian aid is trickling across the border. The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away.

The hospitals have no beds, and are turning people away

Syria: Idlib Battered by the Delta Variant

In northwest Albania Afghan refugees have been welcomed not in an overcrowded camp surrounded by barbed wire but in luxury hotels by the beach.

Albania: A Refugee Paradise?

In a Syria ravaged by more than a decade of war, the oil sector has been hard hit. With many large refineries destroyed, supply is met by small makeshift refineries which employ refugee children in terrible conditions and also pollute the environment.

In a Syria ravaged by more than a decade of war, small makeshift refineries employ refugee children in terrible conditions.

Syria: Child Workers in the Oil Industry

In Alaska, in the city of Nome, Etta Tall longs to be reunited with her family. They're in Russia, where they've been ever since the border closed in 1948. This is the story of one Iniut community, and two very different countries.

American Inuit Etta longs to be reunited with her Russian Inuit family. But the border closed decades ago

Russia/USA: Behind the Ice Curtain

In July 2021, riots and looting in South Africa's Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces left more than 300 dead, and extensive damage. The unrest didn't spread to the rest of the country, but it brought questions of ongoing inequality and racial justice to the fore. One team of neighbourhood volunteers think they have the answer.

 One team of neighbourhood volunteers think they have the answer

South Africa: Segregation, 30 Years After Apartheid

On October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, professor of history at the Conflans Sainte-Honorine college, was beheaded for showing cartoons of the Prophet in class. His murderer was a young Chechen born in Russia, who had been granted refugee status in France through his parents. In Russia, the murder provoked widespread sympathy.