The MDG goal number 5 states to “reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by three quarters by 2015″. Nepal is tackling this goal by increasing education amongst girls, providing safe birthing...
Afghanistan may be going through a process of reconstruction but the situation for women, especially outside the major cities, is little better than it was under the Taliban. Lana Slezic...
It sounds like a contradiction in terms, and in many ways it is. But Bolivia – completely landlocked and at least 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean at its western-most...
Video, stills and editing by Piotr Malecki This multimedia looks at the pressure young people face in call centres in Poland.
Conversations in Photography: 25 years of Panos Pictures In celebrating our 25th year; we look back at some of our biggest stories and consider the way the agency and the...
On the day of the royal wedding questions are raised in the gay heartland of London. In a democratic society shouldn’t everyone be allowed to marry? Shot and edited by...
Hugo Chavez is ‘El Presidente’ who’s Bolivarian Revolution is introducing socialist reforms to the country. Adam wanted to find out people’s thoughts on their own circumstances and their opinions on...
Sierra Leone has among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In 2009, it was estimated that one in eight women died during pregnancy. To get some perspective, one...
Nowhere is the former pope more adored and venerated than in his native Poland. Poland is one of Europe’s most religious countries with more than 90% of the population declaring...
Since the beginning of revolutions in Tunisia and Libya few hundred people a day cross an over hundred kilometer wide strip of the sea dividing Italian Lampedusa island from the...
Markel Redondo meets Central American migrants on their way to the USA. Kidnappings by Mexican gangs is on the increase, and many will suffer severe injury or even death in...
“In Silicon Valley we have the highest concentration of aggressive people in the United States. And it’s a place where all life has been reduced to working in a cubicle...
Ireland is famous for its love of horses and the thoroughbreds raised on its verdant hills. During the boom years, when high-tech companies flocked to the “Celtic Tiger” and the...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been living and fighting in the Qandil mountains, where Iraq boarders Turkey and Iran, for 26 years. This war against Turkey is for Kurdish...
More than 30 million people live in Bangladesh’s coastal communities, where daily life revolves around the sea. Climate change risks changing the sea from a precious source of livelihoods into...
Jan Johannessen’s images of boarded up houses in the Slavic Village neighbourhoods in Cleveland.