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The story of a Congolese theatre student turned revolutionary who spent years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
The story of a feisty and sharp-witted Beirut matriarch as she contemplates the last stage of her life.
This is the story of Ibrahim, a Dutch-Moroccan man tackling the taboo problem of sex-trafficking within his community.
Last Modified: 15 May 2012 11:10 GMT
Was the appropriation of Palestinian books and manuscripts in 1948 a case of cultural theft or preservation?
Last Modified: 24 May 2012 07:14 GMT
When Ye Hongmei lost her daughter in the Wenchuan earthquake, her odyssey to conceive again began.
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2011 06:59 GMT
One innovative journalist has found a way to get daily news and information to Liberians – with the aid of a blackboard.
Last Modified: 02 May 2012 08:04 GMT
The story of a Palestinian boy coming of age amid profound upheaval in one of the world's most contested cities.
Last Modified: 25 Apr 2012 11:06 GMT
Three breakdancing Lebanese siblings must fight deportation to stay in the city they consider home.
Last Modified: 09 May 2012 15:40 GMT
Greek youths reflect on how the killing of a teenager by the police and the resulting riots changed their lives.
Last Modified: 01 Nov 2011 08:41 GMT
With less than 200 remaining in the Arabian Gulf, one group travels through the mountains of Oman to save the species.
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2012 08:18 GMT
A former prison warden works with young South Africans to free them from a cycle of drugs, crime and imprisonment.
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2012 13:02 GMT
More women are serving on the frontlines than ever before, but many return home to find that new battles await them.
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2012 10:54 GMT
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
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