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A former prison warden works with young South Africans to free them from a cycle of drugs, crime and imprisonment.
More women are serving on the frontlines than ever before, but many return home to find that new battles await them.
A Mexican-American family is forced to split up along a fault line of US politics.
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2012 07:01 GMT
Searching for a better life, many immigrants are struggling to survive in the world's fastest growing megacity.
Last Modified: 25 May 2011 09:47 GMT
Lucia Garcias' personal journey to bring her parents' torturers to justice spans 15 years of struggle in Argentina.
Last Modified: 22 Mar 2012 08:52 GMT
A visual essay about the impact of deforestation in Indonesia as seen through the eyes of a dying orangutan.
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2012 07:04 GMT
A journey through the heart of modern Iraq - a country struggling to put itself back together.
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2012 14:43 GMT
We ask if a code promoting self-preservation in a tsunami could account for one Japanese community's high survival rate.
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2012 15:13 GMT
Inside a dissenting Kazakh newspaper, where free speech comes at a price and getting published means risking everything.
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2012 12:49 GMT
A personal journey to the heart of one of South Africa's most dangerous neighbourhoods.
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2012 09:28 GMT
A Moroccan circus is offering some of the country's poorest children a brighter future.
Last Modified: 14 Feb 2012 08:05 GMT
A 70-year-old former nun is using grandmotherly love to transform some of Ecuador's toughest streets.
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2012 14:09 GMT
Behind the baroque facades of St Petersburg residents live in squalor as they take on predatory property developers.
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2012 10:39 GMT
They were born in the year apartheid ended, but do 'Mandela's children' face the bright future they were promised?
Last Modified: 24 Jan 2012 16:24 GMT
Video footage reveals a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive at Guantanamo Bay prison.
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2012 14:29 GMT
In Jerusalem, Jewish and Arab paramedics cross psychological and geographical divisions between the city's residents.
Last Modified: 17 Jan 2012 15:19 GMT
A family story that reveals the fate of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War.
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2012 15:34 GMT
The capital of El Salvador is being torn apart as gangs clash, leaving death, chaos and destruction in their wake.
Last Modified: 22 Jan 2012 13:48 GMT
India's booming assisted fertility business encourages childless couples to overcome the 'curse' of their infertility.
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2012 06:56 GMT
We follow one boy's journey from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon to the UK's most prestigious public school.
Last Modified: 21 Dec 2011 10:34 GMT
This moving story follows a young mother's journey through her pregnancy despite the diagnosis of a fatal birth defect.
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2011 07:59 GMT
An extraordinary portrait of ordinary citizens at war.
Last Modified: 14 Dec 2011 17:08 GMT
A son unpicks the story of his father's life as a Kurdish fighter as he confronts him about being sent away as a child.
Last Modified: 08 Dec 2011 10:38 GMT
Nairobi's matatu drivers are generally despised and feared, but one driver dreams of beginning a new life.
Last Modified: 07 Dec 2011 08:27 GMT
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