After three months of empty silence, under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations reopens for business, starting with the Human Rights Council, and an urgent debate on racism and police violence. Meeting with strict measures in ...
It is difficult to imagine a more remote place yet on the Marquesas Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, halfway between South America and Australia, a group of children have come up with a radical approach to conservation. Asked ...
Even in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, they are out scavenging, wearing headlamps to scan a mountain of rotting garbage more than 15 stories high. The trash pickers, some trudging up the heap in mismatched plastic boots, use a hooked ...
Once upon a time we travelled around the world. By 2019, tourist annual arrivals had reached 1.5 billion according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. At the time, I was one of them, travelling regularly to countries all over the world for ...
'In the next 50 years, if nothing radical is done, Lake Victoria will be dead because of what we are pouring into it' says Professor Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, Governor of Kisumu Province in Kenya. This apocalyptic prophecy concerns a 68,800 square ...
'In February 2020 I travelled to Diffa in Niger for Stichting Vluchteling, the Dutch Refugee Foundation. There I met a number of children, each of whom I asked a different question. We talked about friendship, possessions, loss, about the sun and the ...
Despite having one of the most relaxed regimes in the fight against the spread of Covid-19, Sweden decided to order theatres and cinemas to close, thus avoiding crowds of people gathering in confined spaces. Some have had to come up with innovative ways ...
This collection of plant portraits were all gathered during the length of William Arnold's regular lunchtime walk from his job at Truro College in Cornwall. The one hundred photographic specimens form a homage to Victorian botany from the rear-garden ...
During the Covid-19 lockdown many photographers have begun to search for stories much closer to home, turning their attention to their immediate environment which they might have previously overlooked in the rush of daily life. Jasper White discovered a...
Just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, things took another turn for the worse. Ravaged by bush fires that ripped through swathes of southeastern Australia in December 2019 and January 2020, killing hundreds of thousands of animals and making ...
High up in Vietnam's Hoang Lien Son mountain range, in the shadow of Fansipan, the country's highest peak, an unusual crop has been cultivated since the 1990s. Prized in China for its medicinal qualities in alleviating stomach complaints and used ...
Law and Order is a photo project that compares the criminal justice systems in four countries on four continents: Colombia (South America), France (Europe), Uganda (Africa) and the United States (North America). It combines an artistic view with a ...
University College Hospital in London is taking a deep breath, on a hot summer's day in London. It has survived the onslaught of the initial peak of Covid19 and is now taking stock, learning lessons from its successes and counting the losses of those it ...
Corona Virus Diary by Nick Hannes A strange calm has descended upon the land. The government urges the population to stay indoors and to limit social contacts with their own family members. Public life comes to a standstill, the rat race is stalling. ...
In war zones, bomb blasts deafen innocent civilians and explosions destroy homes and lives. Every day, people suffer death and destruction in faraway places nobody visits and few care about. All the while, we always thought that we were safe in our ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our lives and the way we perceive it. The outbreak has highlighted many issues in our societies and reawakened certain narratives - be it our health systems, the invisible workforce, the notion of a 'universal ...
Rare behind-the-scenes look at Chinese diplomacy and the World Health Organization (WHO). Inside the World Health Organization (WHO) as the coronavirus spreads - from the Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC) to the Governing Body - tensions were ...
Like a film set after the actors have gone or a dark metaphor for the future of multilateralism, the grand Palais des Nations, the UN's European base, has been emptied by the Covid-19 pandemic. On Friday 13th March, the UN precipitately ended all ...
At the coldest point in the day, Joanna Atkins emerges from a converted shipping container sitting on the back of a road train, parked on the side of a dirt track in the middle of the Kimberley in northern Western Australia (WA). Joanna's husband ...
Livestock herding in Australia's remote and rugged outback has historically evoked the image of the 'jackaroo', the country's answer to the American 'cowboy'. In a country where cattle stations can span hundreds of thousands of square kilometres, cattle ...
From the pristine jungles of Cambodia to the great national parks of India and Nepal, Asian wildlife is being plundered on an unprecedented scale. Every year, it is estimated that up to 30,000 primates, 5 million birds, 10 million reptile skins and 500 ...
Angelina Monday and her family are among the 1.3 million people who have fled conflicts in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo and come to Uganda in search of refuge. She arrived in June 2017 with her six children, crossing the border on ...
In Japan, 'cuteness' is deeply embedded in the culture according to Yui Naruse, a researcher at Traffic Japan, a group working to combat the illegal trade in wildlife. And while a certain obsession with cats and other, more conventional pets is well ...
South Africa's second largest city is plagued by crime and drugs. Twenty five years after the end of apartheid, the country is setting new records in inequality and Cape Town, which is both a popular tourist destination and an important business centre, ...
No country on earth has confronted a climate-change-induced catastrophe like Australia. The vast continent is in the grip of a devastating fire season. With months of summer still to go and as a prolonged drought fuelled by record temperatures and strong...
Andrew Esiebo, a native of Lagos, Nigeria's industrial capital and Africa's largest city, has been fascinated by the city's frenetic nightlife for decades. He remembers when he was 9 years old being sent on an errand by his mother in the working class ...
I have been photographing shapes that are appearing on ice throughout the winter. When methane is released from the bottom of a frozen lake it pierces through the thin ice and melts the snow on the surface. When the wind blows the ice sheets move and ...
What began as a protest against a small increase in metro fares in October 2019 has turned into a mass movement for dramatic changes to the country's economic and political system. Violent excesses by the carabineros and the military combined with ...
In 2015, Thailand had the second highest number of road fatalities in the world, second only to war-torn Libya where dying on the road is but one of many dangers facing ordinary citizens. Yet the level of deadliness associated with driving in Thailand ...
On the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, thousands of artisanal miners have been digging up gold in dangerous, informal mines, sunk into jungle hillsides, for generations. The Indonesian government licenses large international mining corporations...
Brazil has one of the the world's highest rates of Covid-19 infections, at over 5 million, and some 148,000 people are thought to have died of the disease (as of 8 October 2020). In March, care homes across the country closed their doors to all visitors,...
It feels like the end of an era - not just the end of festivities - the trees, so recently adorned and surrounded by presents, now cast out, forlorn on the streets, waiting to be taken away. Once they were viewed as a curiosity, sometimes a touch ...
140,000 people die worldwide from snakebites every year. Another 400,000 are severely injured, often needing to have arms or legs amputated or losing their sight. Those worst affected are the rural poor in Africa, Asia and South America. The ...
One of the many side effects of the Trump presidency in the United States has been a steep increase in the number of asylum seekers attempting to enter Canada from the US. The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is now recording the highest number of ...
Grace Kudzu has sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that makes her red blood cells sickle-shaped and rigid, rather than the usual flexible doughnut form. They block her capillaries and cause excruciating vasco-occlusive crises that last for days at a...
Ninety per cent of the world's most highly prized rubies, called 'pigeon's blood' for their deep hue and intensity of colour, come from the hills near the town in Mogok, 200 kms north of Mandalay, Myanmar's second city. The two most precious rubies found...