Domestic servants are treated like slaves in present-day Lebanon. About 200,000 women from around 30 countries work as maids in Lebanon. Their passports are confiscated by the Lebanese CID on arrival. From then on, (...) +
More than four million people live in the world’s rubbish dumps. More than half of these are children, victims of profound social injustice, poverty and neglect.
Filming in India, Nicaragua and Ghana, this (...) +
Jorge and Alex are among thousands of children working in Bolivia’s mines for less than a dollar a day. Jorge’s father suffers from silicosis, the so-called ‘miners’ disease’, so Jorge is the main breadwinner for his (...) +
Every year, thousands of men travel abroad to have sex with children.
Cambodia is a top destination for these ’tourists’. It used to be very easy to buy a child for just a few dollars. But Thierry Darnaudet, decided (...) +
A report from troubled Ingushetia - Chechnya’s smaller neighbour state. For years, war has raged between Islamic insurgents, and the Russian forces of order. People live in terror of suicide bombings and (...) +
Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, and South Africa is the richest country on the continent, but what of Nelson Mandela’s dreams to create an equal, rainbow state?
A positive discrimination policy has meant (...) +
The whole idea of mail order brides has become something of a joke, conjuring up images of sad, lonely men and their money-grabbing trophy wives. But who are the women behind the glossy photographs? How prepared are (...) +
He was the Butcher of Bosnia’s right hand man. Along with Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladlic spearheaded the ethnic cleansing campaigns against Muslims and Croats. Milosevic died in prison. (...) +