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marvi lacar
This project documents the progress of some Maasai people's battle against female circumcision and early marriage through rescue, rehabilitation and tribal outreach programs. This work is part of a larger photo documentary on "Women in Poverty." Poverty is grimly linked to social mores that perpetuate gender bias resulting in a high number of women (nearly 70%) comprising the world's poor...
aga luczakowska
More than 80 years ago, Kemal Ataturk pushed through most radical program of secularization ever attempted in any Muslim society. Since Ataturk's reforms and establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 woman have had an equal status with men in Turkish society. He strongly believed that secular nationalism was an essential feature of modernity and progress...
wendy marijnissen
The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most enduring in the world. This conflict erupts regularly with violence, terror and harassment. Occupation of land, the separation barrier and fear for suicide attacks are very real elements in people's lives. The political situation is defining for daily life. But even here, there is still a vivid cultural world. And more so here...
shiho fukada
During my recent visit to a brothel in Bangladesh, I met Toma who was 14 years old. She was told she was the most beautiful girl in her village, thus her family was afraid that she was going to be gang raped by village boys. Her sister, who took Toma to the brothel about a year ago, told me, “All the boys in the village wanted her for free. Instead of giving her out for free, we decided to
kaylynn deveney
I began photographing Edith and Leonard Crawshaw shortly after they moved from their flat into a Welsh nursing home. Following a broken hip and an extended hospital stay, Len required more care than he had previously. That combined with problems such as negotiating stairs, the occasional burned saucepan and Edith's failing eyesight, finally led to the move...
jean chung
Afghanistan has seen thousands of civilian deaths due to decades of war and conflict including the fights with the Taliban insurgency in recent years. However, it also suffers from unnecessary deaths of women in childbirth. Afghanistan is the country with the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world ...
anastasia taylor-lind
Helin is from Diyarbakir in Southern Turkey. From the age of five, she watched every night as the police came to her home and tortured her father, mother and brother and as they smashed up her home. “In England, most children don’t suffer this”, she tells us, “I was too small to do anything about what was happening then, but decided when I was old enough, that I would...
rena effendi
Since a 1994 ceasefire agreement, the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been frozen, facing a number of politically impossible resolution scenarios. The negative effects of this conflict have not only damaged the lives of those who lived through it, but are now being passed on to new generations...
ami vitale
I am a passionate believer that engagement, not isolationism, is required for a greater understanding and tolerance of other cultures. People around the world want their stories, their concerns, their fears, and their
gratitude to be heard. I don't claim I am achieving lofty goals, but I believe it has the ability to foster greater understanding, tolerance and connection between people on this planet...
gabriela bulisova
Can’t see it, can’t smell it, can’t taste it, can’t talk about it… The 20 mile Chernobyl exclusion zone splits towns and villages in half: half hospitable and living, half lethal and uninhabitable, as if the radioactive contamination stops at some arbitrary line. What is life like in those settlements on the edge of one of the most radioactive areas in the world?
