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Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 3 February 2010
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Idealized by tourists, members of Namibia’s Himba tribe struggle to maintain control of their lives and their land. This beautiful African tribe is now threatened by ongoing projects from the government of Namibia and also by invasion of Western tourists who put in danger their identity. In 1980 the lifestyle of the Himba seemed about [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 28 January 2010
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Tuol Sleng (S-21) Prison was created by order of the Khmer Rouge chief, Pol Pot on April 17th, 1975. The former Toul Svay High School classrooms were turned into interrogation rooms and cells 0.8 by 2 metres square.
S-21 was designed for detention, interrogation and torture. Once prisoners’ confessions were received and documented they were sent [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 24 January 2010
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The archipelago of Cuba consists of 110.992 square kilometers, situated in the center of the Caribbean Sea. This country has been whipped by both natural disasters and political regimes, both of which have left the island the bearer of a past that marks it in the extended and continually-changing story of Universal History. A national [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 18 January 2010
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There is no respect economically or socially for farmers in India, they struggle to survive with dwindling finances dolled out by local governmental agencies at its disposal for grass root level farmers across the drought prone areas of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh and the green belts of Punjab. While 64% of India is an agricultural based [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 11 January 2010
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In the cities of Chongqing, Yichang and Wuham where the Yangtze River flows, people are caught in the middle of major transformations. These changes to their environment have left many displaced and disturbed. With the construction of The Three Gorges Dam, entire towns and cities have disappeared and new towns are emerging with no clear [...]
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 28 December 2009
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Bill Pinchers stands with a group of his workmates – tough looking men, waiting for a red hot bar of steel to make its way towards them inside one of the last hand-rolled steel mills in Britain. Outside, the Black Country weather is doing its worst with heavy rain being driven almost horizontally by [...]
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