Bolivia’s second largest lake has been completely dried out since 2015. This is due to global warming, which is accelerating evaporation – already very high at 4,000 metres altitude – as well as the mining industry, which consumes a significant [...]Read the full article
Women in Mexico are waging a fervent battle against the huge upsurge in gender-based violence and the impunity surrounding too many cases of femicide.Read the full article
This photo documentary chronicles the lives of Senegalese migrants who return home after leaving their country in search of a better life.Read the full article
José González was one of the countless migrants who risk crossing into the United States in search of a better life. But after years spent pursuing an American dream that is inaccessible to most, he returned home to the Sierra de Durango in [...]Read the full article
There are between 400,000 and 600,000 undocumented migrants in France. Most of them work. Through this photo report, these men and women share their daily realities.Read the full article
Residents of the Indonesian island of Pulau Pari have filed a lawsuit against the Swiss cement company Holcim demanding compensation for its role in climate change, which is causing sea levels to rise and threatening their [...]Read the full article
Since 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and [...]Read the full article
Not registered with the nationality committees set up to take a census of Kuwait’s inhabitants when the country gained independence in 1961, those known in Arabic as the ‘Bidoon’ are now undocumented in their own [...]Read the full article
According to experts, deaf children should be exposed to sign language as early as possible. In addition to ensuring access to education, it also helps to prevent the development of various types of mental [...]Read the full article
Real estate developers are flocking to some of Miami’s poorest neighbourhoods, located farther from the coast and better protected from flooding and coastal erosion. Faced with rising housing prices and cost of living, many longtime residents are [...]Read the full article
Fisherfolk in eastern Thailand have taken up the role of citizen scientists to document the long-lasting impacts of what is believed to be the biggest oil spill in the history of the country, and to obtain compensation from those [...]Read the full article
A group of veterinarians and health workers are collecting and analysing samples from animals and humans at a tourist hotspot in Uganda to determine the presence of pathogens and viruses with the potential to cause a global health [...]Read the full article
Vietnam’s nearly 4,500-year-old tradition of sericulture continues to provide a livelihood to numerous families. This time-honoured tradition is mostly carried about by women.Read the full article
Selma Jesús de Souza promotes community work that brings social, environmental and quality-of-life improvements to her village and her territory. This includes the manufacture of acoustic insulation panels from wild cane fibre, as well as a [...]Read the full article
Poland has closed two-thirds of its mines over the last 30 years, reducing the number of jobs in the sector from 300,000 to 80,000. The energy transition raises both hopes and fears. While miners understand the need for change, they fear for [...]Read the full article
This photo essay is an immersive insight into the transgender communities of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India, a testament to the day-to-day struggles and resilience of transgender [...]Read the full article
Since the start of the armed conflict in Mali in 2012, mines and improvised explosive devices have claimed numerous lives every year. A rehabilitation centre in Bamako provides amputee survivors with custom-made prostheses and psychological [...]Read the full article
A photo essay illustrating how decades of migration to the United States has created a generation of abandoned children for whom gangs have become a surrogate family.Read the full article
The form of night lighting that humankind has adopted on a massive scale is not only excessive and inefficient but is also doing far more damage than we, from the comfort of our urban environments, tend to [...]Read the full article
The political and humanitarian crisis devastating Afghanistan since mid-2021 has exacerbated child labour in the country. These are portraits of children who work to support their families.Read the full article
For several months, nearly 1.35 million people have been struggling to eat their fill in southern Madagascar. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), this could be the first famine in the world caused by climate [...]Read the full article
Mexico ranks first in the world in childhood obesity and second in adult obesity. Until recently, studies addressing the causes of obesity have focused on the poor choices made by individuals, but have rarely looked at the obesogenic [...]Read the full article
Gold prices have risen steadily over the past two years, reaching an all-time high in mid-2020. In the Brazilian Amazon, men come to seek their fortunes on forest land that the federal government should protect, but which, more and more, is [...]Read the full article
In Nepal, the fear and uncertainty caused by the pandemic has intensified various inequalities against women, especially gender-based violence.Read the full article
Women from the main Indigenous ethnic group in Chiquimula, Guatemala, one of the country’s poorest departments, from which many people migrate, are taking on entrepreneurial and leadership roles in addition to their traditional roles in the home. [...]Read the full article
The construction of the Rasi Salai dam across the Mun River in the mid-1990s caused the flooding of 16,000 hectares of land and brought an abrupt end to a three-century-old way of life. Today, thousands of families are still fighting for [...]Read the full article
Every week, eleven girls aged 10 to 14 enter a delivery room in Paraguay. Every hour, two teenage girls aged 15 to 19 do the same. Paraguay has the highest child pregnancy rate in the Southern Cone. In 2018, 589 births were registered to [...]Read the full article
Burning the wires and cables of end-of-life electrical goods and electronics is incredibly toxic and completely unregulated, with workers at Agbogbloshie suffering burns and the dangerous effects of air, soil and water [...]Read the full article
Senegalese fishermen are hindered by the scarcity of fish resources and competition from foreign boats. Facing a lack of opportunity, many decide to go into exile to Europe.Read the full article
“We have completely changed the system. We changed the farm and we changed with it”. In France, a quarter of farms are managed by women farmers. Little by little, these women are bringing their vision to the different aspects of farming and [...]Read the full article
The uncertainties faced by young Sahrawis go beyond their future personal lives and employment prospects. Living in refugee camps that are in the midst of change despite the apparent immobility, they are also confronted with the task of building [...]Read the full article
That Kerala was able to recognise the threat posed by the coronavirus and respond to it so quickly is a legacy of decades of progressive politics and an egalitarian development strategy in the communist-run [...]Read the full article
Social actors working in the social and collaborative economy launched the cooperative after having observed that many barbers, hairdressers and tailors, mostly on piecework pay, were often faced with a series of barriers preventing them from [...]Read the full article
In Sundarbans (in Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, as well as one of the country’s worst affected by climate change) a combination of a rising sea level and river erosion is submerging entire villages and [...]Read the full article
One (accidental and positive) effect of the economic crisis has been that it has led to new intergenerational relations. Young and old help and support each other in the framework of intergenerational living [...]Read the full article
“When there’s international pressure, the government becomes more respectful of workers’ rights, and also the discrimination against trade unions decreases. But only when there is international [...]Read the full article
In response to the poor working conditions they face, domestic workers in Mexico – who are often ignored or looked down upon – are organising to stand up for their rights.Read the full article
“It’s easy to forget what you ate that day, or what the weather was like. But forgetting the trauma, forgetting the pain, is impossible.”Read the full article
“Photographers often speak about ‘putting a human face’ on a particular social problem or movement. These images introduced the human faces of Iraqi oil workers to workers abroad.”Read the full article
For many years, the LGBTI community ignored its own elders. Today, the first generations that fought for equal rights are reaching retirement age and the issue has been forced on the community.Read the full article
“I will continue to protest until the judiciary has ended its illegal decisions and until this isolationist policy [against PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan] has ended. If necessary, I will lead this protest to the [...]Read the full article
Thirteen-year-old Anucha Tasako died last November in a boxing ring in a suburb of Bangkok. Like many Thai children, Tasako was a Muay Thai boxer, the favourite sport in a country where the debate on the protection of minors has only just [...]Read the full article
The French government wants to pass a law that will reduce the fixed quota of new homes accessible to persons with a disability from 100 per cent to 20 per cent, further excluding them from life in [...]Read the full article
In 1990, Transnistria, a narrow strip of land located between the Dniester River and Ukraine, declared its independence from Moldova. No member states of the United Nations have recognised the self-proclaimed republic, leaving its half a million [...]Read the full article
Six thousand Khwes live in the north-east of Namibia. The ethnic group, which has been present in this part of southern Africa for tens of thousands of years, is now fighting for survival. Sedentarised and ostracised, they are waging a battle to [...]Read the full article
A US Army study calculated that Kivalina, in Alaska, will be completely under water by 2025. The nearly 400-strong Iñupiat community living there will have to relocate due to the thawing of the [...]Read the full article
“Despite cultural and religious differences, the women of Maraveh Tappeh have similar stories to women in other parts of Iran. But the unfinished childhood of the young girls of the region is a forgotten story that resonates with women far and [...]Read the full article
Every day, almost 64,000 Palestinian workers have to cross checkpoints, like the one in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. They are forced to endure these extreme conditions to reach their jobs on the other side of the Green Line, in Israeli cities or [...]Read the full article
In the Biobío and La Araucanía regions of Chile the Mapuche communities claim their ownership of ancestral lands, which puts them in direct confrontation with the agricultural and forestry companies that profit from their exploitation of the [...]Read the full article
Being a girl in Ethiopia is a full-time job: carting water, cooking, cleaning, collecting firewood and looking after younger siblings. As a result, many girls are not able to play or to enjoy their childhood, and see their education, self-worth [...]Read the full article
Experts estimate that China could become the biggest Christian country in the world over the next few years. However, most practitioners reject the country’s state-sanctioned churches, which they accuse of serving the Communist Party of China’s [...]Read the full article
Since 2009, the Shepherding School of Catalonia has been offering training in the practice of shepherding. With close to 80 per cent of its alumni turning to livestock farming after completing the course, the educational institution is playing a [...]Read the full article
Photojournalist Sam Vox traveled to flower farms in Arusha and Moshi to meet some of Tanzania’s female flower workers and talk about their issues. While most of them confirmed reports of harassment and discrimination, they also said that the [...]Read the full article
“There is nothing the state can do to make up for losing my son. It’s too late. But the government must take action to prevent more lives being lost.”Read the full article
Last year, Uganda took in more refugees than any other country in the world, and at present, more than 1.35 million refugees have settled in Uganda, primarily from South Sudan.Read the full article
Patriotism is currently being reasserted as the highest value in Poland. The government is, moreover, coupling national identity with religion, and Christian values dominate the Army. The discourse that has been present in military circles for [...]Read the full article
