In June 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the presidential election in the Philippines with strident promises that he would eradicate drug use and associated criminality by killing thousands of dealers and users. Since then, almost 12,500 people have died, ...
Shishmaref, Alaska is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, flanked by the Chukchi Sea to the north and an inlet to the south. It sits atop rapidly melting permafrost and in the last decades, the island's ...
Motorcycle culture is deeply embedded in the modern American identity. It is usually associated with outlaws, gangsters, machismo and an independent lifestyle reflecting what many in America feel to be the nation's roots. This culture was made ...
Since April 2016, thousands of native Americans and their supporters have been converging on a site in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline which is supposed to bring fracked crude oil...
Heading south, past the Salton Sea where farmland turns to dusty towns, following the tyre tracks of trailers and camper vans deep into the parched desert, a landscape of shabby vehicles that have taken root in the ground emerges. For years, a ...
Based in Istanbul, Ivor Prickett has been covering the conflict in Iraq and its ripple effects across the region for the past two years. Some of the most brutal fighting to regain parts of Iraq from Islamic State (IS) took place during the battle ...
In the November 2014, Panos photographer Mads Nissen and his colleague Jacob Svendsen from the Danish newspaper Politiken travelled to Sierra Leone to document the ongoing Ebola emergency that was to claim almost 4,000 lives in the West African ...
An agreement between the EU and Turkey in March 2016 stipulated that any migrants or refugees arriving from Turkey in Greece would be sent back to Turkey if they didn't apply for asylum in Greece or if their claim was rejected. The agreement was a ...
Colombia's civil war, a deadly 52 year long national ordeal that left over 200,000 dead and displaced another 5 to 6 million from their homes, finally looks like it might be drawing to a close. What started as partisan conflicts between militias of ...
Her name isn't actually Sarah. For her own safety and for that of her family living in Iraq, her name can't be revealed. She is living in a safe house in Baden-Wrttemberg in Germany with other women and children who have escaped from conflict zones ...
At 2:30 am on 3 August 2014, a woman was baking bread in Gurzeric village in northwestern Iraq when she suddenly heard a gunshot. It was at this moment, in the middle of the night, that militants from Islamic State (IS) started a full assault on ...
The coup attempt of 15 July in Turkey brought about a massive nationwide campaign to silence opposition to the government and punish those suspected of being connected to the plotters. In all, some 15,800 people have been detained, including 10,000 ...
The sleepy town of Veles in the centre of Macedonia seems an unlikely place to have played a potentially decisive role in the 2016 US elections. Yet this faded and morose former industrial town of 55,000 people briefly shot to the world's attention ...
The remote village of Ribnovo in the Rhodope mountains of southwestern Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution and subsequent economic hardship. Ribnovo's inhabitants, who are Muslim,...
Aysha is one of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have undertaken the hazardous and sometimes deadly journey from Syria, through Turkey to Europe over the past two years, fleeing war, persecution and death. It took her over two weeks of ...
The waters of the Prespa Lakes are shared between three countries which border them: Albania, Greece and Macedonia. Over the past century the two lakes, located on a mountain plateau in the southern Balkans have been straddling the faultlines between...
The Greek island of Leros, nestled among the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean, is a place accustomed to outcasts. In Antiquity it was a place of exile for the nearby town of Miletus, now on the Turkish mainland. Later, during Ottoman times the ...
On the Greek island of Leros, in the dilapidated shell of a former mental asylum that served as a jail for political prisoners during the country's dictatorship, a 'hotspot' has been housing stranded refugees who have arrived on boats from Turkey ...
In Japan, where eating is taken very seriously and fish forms a major part of the national diet 'fugu', or pufferfish, is in a league of its own. Not only is it one of the most expensive delicacies on the Japanese menu but it also carries the extra ...
I'm in Nikolai Smetanin's office where he is talking me through a series of photographs of mangled reindeer carcasses. Nikolai is the head of Yakutia's government-run hunting department. With a landmass comparable to India, Yakutia is by far the ...
Women like Ruth, Beverly and Remi are seeking refuge at one of Papua New Guinea’s few safe houses for abused women and children. Despite the horrific violence they have suffered, they refuse to be silenced. They want change and protection. They are...
Commissioned by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation, Christian Als’ film tell the story of Anna, a Norwegian woman living with MS. Under the banner of #LifewithMS, she gives tips and suggestions from her own daily life for others living...
With the support of Oxfam Novib, Woye Microfinance Institution empowers women in South Sudan. Watch Monica’s success story. ...
With the support of Oxfam Novib, Woye Microfinance Institution empowers women in South Sudan. Watch Monica’s success story. ...
Researchers from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, with support from Bio-resource Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development (Bio-Innovate) Program, have developed superior, better-yielding, drought-resistant varieties of beans. The varieties ...
Carlos was hired by the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform -EMSP- to coordinate a group of photographers to realise a broad panorama of what life is like if you have MS in Europe. According to Eurobarometer, there are substantial differences in terms ...
An investigation about the internal workings and exploitation of workers at the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort in Singapore, part of the Las Vegas Sands Corp chain of casinos. ...
He’s the best Spanish surfer of all time, the only one to compete with the world elite, and one of the few Europeans to get there. Here he shares the last few days of his surfing season. ...
Irene and Araceli design very cool shoes in Mallorca. A group of artisan women from CORR – The Jute works (a initiative of Caritas) craft these beautiful and comfortable shoes. Pla means plain, but it is also the name of the area where they live ...
A short video to accompany the article for El País Semanal by Jesús Rodríguez about the transformation of the great museums into hypercompetitive institutions with a strong profit motive. ...
Mergers and acquisitions. IPOs. They’re the ones who negotiate, the ones closing contracts, the elite among lawyers. Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno entered the headquarters of the most important firms in Spain. An opaque, hermetic world, ...
A short film about the immigration crisis facing Europe since the spring of 2015. Tens out thousands of people have been attempting the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean from North Africa in rickety boats, often having to be rescued by NGOs or ...
A short film about the Belgian town of Antwerp where 80% of all rough diamonds in the world are bought and sold. ...
Up to 8,000 people have been killed or injured in Iraq by cluster munitions. One quarter of these casualties were children. Thousands of civilians worldwide continue to be affected. The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions bans the use, production and ...
A short film made for the French NGO the Grdr about the relationship between migration and development in the region of Sédhiou, Casamance, Sénégal. The film explores how the changing economic environment in Europe and that of West Africa are causing ...
The general view of southwestern Senegal and northwestern Guinea Bissau is that of a region weakened by climate change, conflict, political instability and poverty. This image does not really reflect reality. Over the past few decades, the region has ...