The Lord's Resistance Army, which claims to be fighting for a state ruled according to the Ten Commandments, has terrorised the northern provinces of Uganda since 1987, abducting 20,000 children and forcing 1.6 million people to flee their homes. ...
Since splitting from Africa and India, the island of Madagascar has been geographically distinct for about 70 million years. This has put it on a different evolutionary course resulting in an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, much of it ...
Sourcing fuel has been a major problem for the 106,000 Bhutanese refugees living in southern Nepal. The forests in the Jhapa and Morang districts where they live could never sustainably provide the firewood needs of such a large population, and until ...
HIV has swept through communities in South Africa, changing the shape of the family as mothers and fathers die from AIDS. The impact on children is dramatic, but too often those affected by AIDS and poverty become invisible to the wider community and the...
In North-Eastern Kenya a humanitarian disaster is taking place. Each month, thousands of refugees cross the border from neighbouring Somalia to escape the ongoing violence and desperate living conditions in that benighted country. There is one road ...
Following the departure of Tunisia's strongman Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in early January and the drawn-out showdown between President Mubarak and anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on 17 February 2011 it was Libya's turn. After ...
Once the most stable and prosperous of West African nations, Cote d'Ivoire has seen in the 21st century with a series of internal conflicts following a coup against the then president Henri Bedi in 1999. As in so many other parts of Africa, ethnicity...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went hungry? If you had to flee suddenly, what would you take with you? Working in partnership with ...
In the barren plains of northern Jordan, just 10 miles from the Syrian border, lies the Zaatari refugee camp where close to 150,000 Syrians have found shelter after fleeing across the border from their homeland which has been gripped by one of the ...
As Britain commemorated 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, Panos produced an exhibition to reveal how human trafficking is a bitter reality for thousands of women, men and children in the UK today. Slave Britain artfully documents the ...
How can you cut your carbon footprint by half? It might seem impossible, but take a short ferry ride from the centre of Stockholm and you may just find the answer. The district of Hammarby Sjostad, a former brownfield site on the edge of a lake, is fast ...
As the UK prepared for a general election on May 6th widely seen as the most important in a generation, party leaders criss-crossed the country in search of votes. Wherever they went, a Panos photographer was not far behind. This is a selection of ...
Paul Weinberg conceived and curated the exhibition Then & Now for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. It featured the work of eight South African documentary photographers, all of whom were associated with the legendary ...
For centuries the Indian sub-continent has been the last redoubt of the hirsute; a reliquary for the beards and moustaches of epochs past. Not so long ago every Indian office, factory or farm had its collection of Soup Strainers, French Forks, Recumbent ...
It's an apocalyptic scene. As far as the eye can see stretches a flattened landscape sodden with cracked mud. Zigzagging pathways of rocks and roof tiles laid down by former residents indicate where it is safe to walk. The jagged remains of crumbling ...
Surrounding the gritty industrial town of Dhanbad is a region rich in coal, vital to India's burgeoning energy and steel industries. Entire communities of scavengers scratch a living recycling leftover coal lumps, often found in the slag dumped by ...