The most persistent and determined protest in Turkey for a decade: “Tekel” was the government-owned tobacco and alcoholic beverages company for many years, but when the tobacco branch of Tekel was sold to British American Tobacco in 2008 as part of privatization plans, Tekel workers lost their job status.
The government is now forcing them to [...]

Detroit was once America’s iconic city of prosperity. However, upon visiting for the first time in early 2009 it reminded me of the war-torn cities of Beirut and Kabul. Many factories of former legendary automakers were left in ruins, still containing hazardous materials such as asbestos. One-third of the city’s buildings or houses remained vacant. [...]

In 2002, the refugee camp located in Sangatte was closed by the french authorities . In stead of stopping the problem, the closure of the camp deplaced the migration directly into Calais . The refugees now wander in the streets of the town, build huts in the nearby forests and industrial sites, at day time [...]

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan based guerrilla army, has been fighting in northern Uganda since 1986, in a civil war that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives and caused around 1.6 million refugees to flee. The UN has described the war as the “biggest neglected humanitarian emergency in the world”.
Following the beginning of [...]

Iraq’s Kirkuk region, roughly 250 km / 150 miles north of Bagdad, is a major oil production site. Since the American led invasion of 2003, it has had it’s share of suicide attacks and car bombings. Insurgents have been know to target local police forces, seen as collaborators with the US Military.
By 2011 all American [...]

Thailand is now a divided in two: The anti-government group called the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or simply THE RED SHIRTS, and the others wearing YELLOW SHIRTS, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD). PAD crashed with the Thai police in October 2008, left two people dead and some 400 injured.  Then, [...]