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Turkey: Gypsy Village
By Emre Kuheylan
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 19 October 2009
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This reportage was taken in a small gypsy village called Çırpı, about an hour away from Izmir, Turkey. Locals of the village came to Turkey around 1930s from Bulgaria and you can clearly see that they are still living in 1930s conditions.

Population of the village is around couple of hundreds and most of them [...]

France: Calais Illegal Immigrants. ‘Go to England’.
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe, news & global, slides on 14 October 2009
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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 [...]

Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Camp, Unregistered
By Jared Katz
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 5 October 2009
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The Rohingya are not recognized as Burmese citizens by the ruling military junta. Widespread abuse, rape, and oppression have caused hundreds of thousands to flee and find refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Today, over 27,000 of these refugees remain unrecognized by the Bangladeshi government as legal refugees, and are left largely unsupported with nowhere to go; [...]

India: Struggle, A Profession
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 August 2009
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A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]

Sudan, DRC, CAR: Seeking Shelter From Violence
By Jenn Warren
Posted in all, features, africa, news & global, slides on 9 August 2009
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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 [...]

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 [...]