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 ...

In the age of universal mobile phone coverage, Facebook and Lonely Planet guides there are still a few countries which tightly restrict independent tourism. North Korea takes great pains to ensure that foreign visitors only get to see the socialist ...

Like many of the cities that were built and populated against all odds in the days of the Soviet Union's breakneck development of the 1930s and 40s, Norilsk doubled up as a prison camp, part of the vast network of forced labour colonies that became ...

The Kupol ('Dome') Gold Mine in Russia's far northeastern Chukotka Autonomous Okrug is a fully functioning self-contained mini-city of 1,200 workers who live on the remote station in shifts around the year. For three months of the year - between ...

Russia's Taimyr region, stretching far into the arctic ocean, high above the arctic circle, is home to almost two thirds of the world's wild reindeer population. The local indigenous groups - Nenets, Dolgans and Nganasans - are famous for their ...

Since the end of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994, around three million black South Africans have risen into the country's middle class. Until recently, the middle class was almost exclusively white but demographics have rapidly altered this ...

In the far reaches of North Dakota, close to the Canadian border, a remote and inhospitable landscape has turned into an El Dorado for oil companies forever searching for new reserves and for thousands of victims of the credit crunch. The result is ...

In the ever shifting web of alliances, offensives and counter offensives that have characterised Syria's brutal civil war, the People's Protection Units (or YPG by their Kurdish acronym) have been a consistent force in the far northeast of the ...