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Syrian refugees in Lebanon
About 10.000 displaced Syrians fled to North Lebanon, mainly in Wadi Khaled and the Bekaa valley. The Syrians began to flee into North Lebanon in April 2011, the flux has increased after the bombardments on Homs and other cities in February 2012. See more |
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Children of the war - South Kivu 2010
Since 1994, the fighting between Armed Forces and rebel groups in North and South Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo), has killed over 6 million people. The effect of the war for children has been huge: many street children are orphans, former child soldiers or have been separated from their parents. See more |
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Sexual violence and AIDS
Survivors of sexual violence participate in a program that tries to help them by offering therapy and medical treatment to both rape survivors and their partners. Rape often occurs in front of the family, a deliberate strategy to traumatise the local population in rural eastern DR Congo. See more |
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From slum to school: integration of Roma children
The 15.000 Roma that live in France are considered as secondary citizens who are severely discriminated and constantly deported back to Romania, despite the interdiction for group deportations under current EU-legislation. Populist French political leaders such as President Nicolas Sarkozy, wrongly describe their slums as sources of theft, child exploitation and prostitution. See more |
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The sand diggers in Kalaban Koro
In Kalaban Koro, a suburb of Bamako, thousands of men, women and children work in the labor-intensive sand extraction on the Niger river. The sand is needed for the fast growing building industy in the capital. See more |
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Roma: The Unwanted Europeans
"Anti-Gypsyism is a very specific form of racism, an ideology of racial superiority, a form of dehumanization and of institutionalized racism. [...] Dehumanization is its central point. Roma are viewed as less than human; being less than human, they are perceived as not morally entitled to human rights equal to those of the rest of the population." Valeriu Nicolae, in: "Anti-Gypsyism - a definition". See more |
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Urban slabs: bygone utopia
Pedestrian slabs from the 60s and 70s were conceived as ideal cities for families, on which they could live, shop, exercise and meet friends, far from the pollution and noises from the streets. See more |
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Dialakoro Djitoumou, a Sahel village
Dialakoro Djitoumou (Mali), situated in the Sahel, under the capital Bamako, seems a model village.
It's an ideal place to ask the question what life looks like in the country, now that for the first time in human history more than half of the world population lives in cities. See more |
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Lastovo: traces of an army
When the Yugoslavian army was forced to leave the Croatian island Lastovo in 1992, it partly destroyed the private hotels and other army buildings, preventing future re-use. See more |
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