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Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 15 February 2010
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Since 1998 the region of Ihosy has been undergoing a process very similar to the Gold Rush phenomenon in California in 1848. There has been a large influx of immigrants due to the discovery of sapphires. First there was much internal migration of people from all over the country which is composed of 18 ethnicities. [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 18 January 2010
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There is no respect economically or socially for farmers in India, they struggle to survive with dwindling finances dolled out by local governmental agencies at its disposal for grass root level farmers across the drought prone areas of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh and the green belts of Punjab. While 64% of India is an agricultural based [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 16 December 2009
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The Kingdom of Cambodia is known for the incredible ruins of Angkor Wat and the brutal repression of the Khmer Rouge. A defunct healthcare system is a legacy from that era that ordinary Khmers still live with. While the country hobbles back to relative stability, thanks to an influx of foreign investment, much remains unachieved. [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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, [...]
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