In 2009, the anniversary of the peaceful revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall will come around for the 20th time. These events sparked profound transformation worldwide; they mark the end of the Cold War and of the partition of Europe.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 moved the world. The peaceful revolution [...]

More than 50.000 displaced, thousands of houses destroyed, churches burnt in the dozens, around one hundred people killed and more than two hundred still missing, twelve relief camps set up in a hurry to provide the fleeing Christian tribes of Khandamal with some shelter.

This is the result of the Hindus’ rage eruption that hit hard [...]

Romania is aging and, at the same time, it’s Transylvania region experiences depopulation once again. This time in an even more devastating way than during the Saxon emigration in medieval times. It is estimated that 4 million Romanians (20% of the general population), especially those from the rural areas, have left the country to work [...]

In the first days of August 2008, the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili ordered and attack against the separatist region of South Ossetia. As retaliation, the Russian troops took over the regions of Abdkazia and South Ossetia and bombed several locations in Georgian territory.
During the conflict thousands fled their villages and towns, leaving homes, family members [...]

“Galegos na Diáspora” (”Galician diaspora”) is a long term documentary project started in 1989 and finished in 2009 about the exodus of thousands of Galicians, now based around the world. The author wants to give a tribute with his personal idea to the emigrants of Galicia. The journeys he covered includes: Europe, Américas, Asia and [...]

A tragic story that never ends. The war in DR Congo is the most deadly conflict to have taken place anywhere on earth since World War II. Bewildering in its complexity, the war officially came to an end in 2003. And yet the killing goes on. At the beginning of 2008, as a ceasefire was [...]