Throughout Guatemala, a verdant and fertile country in central America, chronic malnutrition is a creeping menace that leaves children physically and mentally stunted, with serious consequences for the country's economic future. The country has the ...

A popular saying in Guatemala describes how locals feel about the staggering level of violence in the country: 'En Guatemala, la vida no vale nada.' ('Life is worth nothing in Guatemala.') In 2011, the country elected Otto Fernando Perez Molina, a...

On January 12, 2010, Port-Au-Prince suffered a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the city, killing an unknown number of Haitians and leaving over a million homeless. The death toll estimates range from 100,000 to 300,000. Apartment ...

'The city pays millions for its image, for the perception of tranquility and calm' says Fernando Quijano, president of the Medellin conflict monitoring group 'Corporation for Peace and Development (Corpades) which investigates gang activity and maps...

On 12 January 2010 southern Haiti was shaken by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, the capital, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving over a million homeless. Though the estimates of fatalities vary widely ...

PIGS is a term coined by the business and financial press as a way to refer to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain during their current financial plight. Some would also include Ireland in this group, but since it never possessed an empire, it hasn't ...

Cargo cults are religious practices in Melanesia, the Pacific region stretching from Fiji in the East to Papua New Guinea in the West, which focus on obtaining the 'cargo' (or material wealth) from the Western World through magic, religious rituals ...

In Haiti today, more than 300,000 children are victims of domestic slavery. In Haitian Creole they are called restaveks, from the French reste avec or 'stay with'. Many parents who live in poverty are unable to feed their children and give them away ...

The tiny island nation of Nauru, a 21 square kilometre speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean just south of the Equator, today finds itself at the centre of the controversial immigration policy of Australia, its vast and increasingly ...

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 to recent statistics from the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health, ...

Sorcery-related violence is widespread in Melanesia. In Papua New Guinea (PNG) it can take a particularly savage form. In the Highlands Region witch-hunts occur in almost every province. Belief in 'sanguma' (witches) or 'puri-puri' (black magic) is ...

Remote Manus Island was once one of the least developed places in Papua New Guinea due to its remoteness. Since the early 2000s, however, it has become one of the centres of Australia's 'Pacific Solution', a controversial system of processing asylum ...

The tiny island of Ebeye in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, has a total area of 0.36 square kilometres and is home to over 13,000 people, most of whom were moved there from nearby islands because of a US Army missile range-testing program that was...

At the end of the 15th century, tens of thousands of Jews were expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabelle, the 'Catholic Monarchs', who had brought the Inquisition to Spain and were rooting out any deviant Christian movements as well as ridding ...

The tiny island of Niue in the South Pacific, also known as the Rock of Polynesia, is one of the most remote places on earth. It can only be accessed by plane, on a three and a half hour flight from Auckland which flies once or twice a week, or by ...

Warm Waters is a long-term photographic project by Vlad Sokhin investigating the effects of climate change on the nature and people of communities living in and around the Pacific Ocean. Tackling one of the biggest issues facing mankind through the ...