Everywhere and every day women have abortions. This is the story of Bhakti who, after discovering she was pregnant, decided to have an abortion, just like millions of other women around the world. Bhakti, who lives in India, shares her experience of why ...
Across southeast Asia, indigenous communities often lack formal legal title to their ancestral lands. As a result, traditional holdings can face expropriation and encroachment by business interests or by the state. Law groups on the island of Mindanao in...
In South Sudan, 13 Dutch organisations of the Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) are helping with emergency relief activities. The alliance includes CARE Netherlands, Cordaid, Dorcas, ICCO, Kerk in Actie, OXFAM NOVIB, Plan Netherlands, Tear, Terre des Hommes, ...
Save the Children in Jordan commissioned Dutch photographer and director Chris de Bode and Dutch Filmmaker Steven Elbers to produce a short documentary, ‘Living on Scrap’, which tells the story of two young boys working to support their families by ...
The Boko Haram conflict in the Lake Chad region has displaced over 1,3 million children, causing a complex humanitarian crisis. One in three people in this region don’t have access to safe drinking water. In Chad, diarrhoea is one of the leading ...
After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly must work arduous hours for fear of losing their jobs. This often leads to depression and suicide. ...
This short documentary follows a mother’s devotion after her 11-year-old daughter is struck by a stray bullet in New York City. Nearly a third of stray bullet shooting victims in the United States are children. ...
The number of temp workers in Japan has been steadily climbing – from 16% in 1985 to 34% in 2007. As more and more companies continue to replace costly full-time employees with cheaper temp workers, an income gap between lifetime workers and their ...
Mercy Owiti is a palliative care nurse in Nyeri, Kenya. For people like her, caring for patients at the end of life often means more than just pain relief. That’s why the Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association has been training health care ...
Bibiane suffers in isolation with cataract blindness. As a respected elder and the matriarch of her family, she should be enjoying time with her grandchildren and her community. Instead she is completely dependent on her grandson to lead her around for ...
Warning: Some viewers may find this video distressing. Papua New Guinea has one of the world’s highest rates of violence against women and children. An estimated two out of three women have experienced physical or sexual assault, and often when ...
In Cameroon’s Far North region, chaos and displacement stemming from Boko Haram’s violence have upended people’s lives. The kids and teachers at Baigai Public School are a mix of refugees from across the border in Nigeria, internally ...
Joseph Gatyoung Khan was one of thousands of people who fled the long civil war in Sudan. After living in the United States for 22 years he was reunited with his family in southern Sudan in 2010. ...
In Papua New Guinea where homosexuality is illegal, Hanuabada village is one of few places where gay and transgender men can live in safety. Elsewhere, gays are targeted and physical and sexual assaults are common. ...
10-year-old James from Efate Island in Vanuatu lost his home and school when Cyclone Pam devastated the small Pacific island nation. This is his story. Your support is urgently needed to help rebuild schools and restore water systems for children in ...
A short film about the international rescue effort in the Mediterranean to bring thousands of migrants arriving on unseaworthy boats from Africa to safety in Europe. ...