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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 [...]

Papua New Guinea: Paradise Lost
By Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific on 29 July 2009
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Watch multimedia slideshow with narration on this work and story.
My view is filled with green, green as far as I can see: dark green, vibrant green, tired looking green but all green with the occasional splash of muddy brown. I’m in a helicopter flying over the rainforests of the Gulf and Western Provinces, Papua New [...]

Western Sahara: The Forgotten People
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 22 July 2009
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As soon as the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara started and the vicious and bloody war diffused, nearly 200,000 Saharawis made their way across the desert, under aerial bombardment, to refugee camps in Algeria. Five camps were created under the control of the Polisario Front - the Sahawaris’ national liberation movement, which had appeared [...]

Canada: The Law Of Silence, Starting To Weaken
By Marc-André Pauzé
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 7 July 2009
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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 [...]

Western Sahara: The Saharawi Guerrilla
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 21 May 2009
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Thousands of miles from any major civilisation and with temperatures as high as 50℃, two armies are prepared to resume a war. On one side there are over 100,000 heavily armed Moroccan conscripts, drafted from coastal cities and temperate mountain valleys, waiting behind a huge fortified rubble wall. This wall runs for nearly 2,500 km, is [...]

Japan: Portraits of outcast people
By Masaru Goto
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 5 March 2009
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NIHON-JIN, BURAKU-MIN: Portraits of Japan’s outcast people
“The Buraku-Min (tribal people) compose one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidōand the Ryukyuans of Okinawa. Despite being thoroughly Japanese, racially and ethnically, the Buraku-Min still face discrimination and struggle under the weight of their shared history in Japan. “
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