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Unveiling Women Behind Veils
By Laura El-Tantawy
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, features, greater middle east on 10 September 2009
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All the way from India to the Middle East, women have traditionally adorned the veil, a sheer fabric to cover their hair and sometimes their face. While some wear it for purely traditional purposes, others will don it as a rite of passage when a girl grows from childhood to adulthood, as do women in [...]

Italy: Migrant Prostitution
By Paolo Patrizi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 September 2009
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I drive along country roads on the outskirts of Rome and cannot help but notice scantly clad women dot the landscape. The majority are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. Some women are working by their own choice; others are not. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, [...]

Canada: The Law Of Silence, Starting To Weaken
By Marc-André Pauzé
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 7 July 2009
Stats: 1,493 views and 3 Comments

Text and Photos Marc-André Pauzé
Whereas we are witnesses of the slow disintegration of the Amer-Indian communities, marked by a very high infant mortality, a chronic unemployment and self-destroying violence, some portions of hope appears on the horizon.
Photojournalist and nurse specialized in backcountry medecine, Marc-Andre Pauzé will report from various canadians indigenous communities in a [...]

Nepal: The Day The Rain Came
By Morten Svenningsen
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 28 June 2009
Stats: 1,285 views and 2 Comments

 
The monsoon rain finally arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal this week, on June 25. Some people cheered and laughed in the rain, before running for cover or bringing out their umbrellas. Over the next 4 month, 80-90% of the years “water supply” will arrive from the sky, since rainfall is the only source of water in [...]

France: No Anorexia
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 4 June 2009
Stats: 856 views and 1 Comment

As light as a snowflake, small lost bird, Isabelle suffers from
anorexia. Prisoner of her childhood, and her mother, who covered her
with scarves so that she would not grow by breathing too much air.
Between a thirst for living and a fear of freedom, she embodies a
[...]

India: The Transgender World
By Alessandro Vincenzi
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 31 May 2009
Stats: 8,332 views and 7 Comments

During British raj the colonials passed a law in which the transgenders were described as “sodomites” and people who did “homosexual offense”. This was the first time ever that transgenders were openly discriminated against in Indian History.
There is an estimation of more than 25000 transgenders in Mumbai floating from one place to the other within [...]