Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a dangerous place for women, or ‘meri’ as they are called in Tok Pisin, the local language. Violence against women is seen as normal. According...
The consequences of some conflicts related to the Arab springs, such as the Libyan and Syrian wars triggered a massive wave of refugees. On 3 October 2013, 366 immigrants trying...
Meet Beatrice’s family: there’s Elizabeth, Ruth, Margaret, Francis, Samuel, John, Kelvin, and Linda & Mary the twins. Elizabeth, the eldest, wants to be a lawyer. Beatrice wants all her children...
The House of Culture of the Blind in Yerevan has stood almost empty since the fall of the Soviet Union due to a lack of funding for disabled people in...
‘Women’s Voices: Michelle’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Adam Patterson.
‘Women’s Voices: Juliette’ is part of a series of three short films on abortion produced by Panos for the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Video by Abbie Trayler-Smith.
‘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...
A three-part documentary based on Shiho Fukada’s portrait series, Japan’s Disposable Workers. The three sections are: Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly...
High on a mountain, three shamans sit cross-legged on a great burial stone, gazing out across a moonlit valley. They are singing, a slow ululation that fades into the predawn...
Panos photographer Kacper Kowalski has won two first prizes at Poland’s national Press Photo Awards, Grand Press Photo. A single from his work on urban China won the First Prize...