‘Women’s Voices: Bhakti’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Suzanne Lee.
A cluster bomb is dropped and ten years later people are still being affected by it. Over the years, up to 8,000 people have been killed or injured in Iraq...
Around the world, some 287,000 women die every year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth and according to recent figures 6.6 million children have died before reaching their 5th birthday....
On 1 September 1914 Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo. Once the world’s most abundant bird it fell victim to excessive hunting and deforestation within a few...
Long since the days of William Wallace, imortalised and mythologised by Hollywood in 90’s film Braveheart, we ask his possible successors and namesakes to share their views on life, freedom...
“The greatness of his mind is such that he rather chooseth to die than be taken alive: wherein the unicorn and the valiant-minded soldier are alike, which both contemn to...
With the decline of the textile industry, the mills which provided work for people who migrated to Bradford from the Asian subcontinent in the 1950s and 60s now lie empty....
Featuring portraits from the Belle Vue Studio and pictures taken by Tim Smith over the past 25 years, this film explores the experiences of three generations, tracing how employment for...
From cafes set up in terraced houses to the giant Melas (gatherings) of more recent years, Britain’s Asian communities have always sought to express themselves and their culture. This film...
A group of men pose together, solemn and serious in suits and ties, pens and briefcases carefully displayed. The photograph of these Bradford mill workers was taken in the 1950s...
For 1400 years the biggest metropolis in Africa and the Middle East has grown within the same narrow borders, giving rise to one of the densest urban spaces on earth....
“My confidence level is very high!” says Kalpana Oli, a farmer and participant in Oxfam’s livelihoods programme in Nepal. Kalpana has become a member of her local co-operative, which is...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went...
Moments after Um Alaa left her hometown in Syria, a missile hit her home and destroyed it completely. Despite being alone with eight young children, she decided to embark on...
Nia used to dream of cows, and every time she did, she realised she was pregnant. After her ten children left she adopted her brother’s child, but then the child...