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Canada: Caring In The Shadow
By Marc-André Pauzé
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 20 September 2009
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With a lack of doctors and nurses, province of Quebec health centers go through very difficult times. Both of these health professionals has less and less time with their patients. But the daily chores of helping, comforting and watching over fragile and sick person go to a unknown group of workers. Nursing assistant are there, [...]

Congo: Baka Indigenous People Fighting For Survival
By Graeme Williams
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 4 September 2009
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The Republic of Congo’s indigenous people, the country’s first inhabitants, are under threat.  The Baka, one of 15 ethnic groups, who traditionally have lived as hunters and gathers in the forest of central Africa, confront two grave dangers.  Their traditional habitat is under threat from commercial logging and when they do leave the forest, they [...]

India: Mercury Menace
By Sudhanshu Malhotra
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 7 August 2009
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Beautiful lakes, silent hills coated with eucalyptus and pine trees, misty mornings ascertaining a perennially cool weather, Kodaikanal comes across as a perfect tourist destination in southern India. But even this picture perfect landscape has not escaped the harsh consequences of man’s eternal greed. It is a story of suffering on account of exposure to [...]

France: No Anorexia
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 4 June 2009
Stats: 1,143 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: Productive Lives
By Alex Masi
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 29 May 2009
Stats: 1,534 views and 2 Comments

Alex Masi investigates the leather business in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, one of the largest production and manufacturing centres in Asia, to document child labour and indiscriminate pollution.

India: Hell Hole: Living on Jharia’s Fiery Mines
By Brent Foster
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 4 April 2009
Stats: 1,154 views and 1 Comment

I consider it hell on earth. Literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet thousands do.

For almost a century now Jharia coal mines have been burning in the state of Jharkhand, India. It’s one of the largest coal mines [...]