Ekon Association in Warsaw is a recycling plant that provides jobs for people with learning difficulties or mental health issues who would otherwise find it difficult to get work.Some people working at Ekon have disabilities which they were born ...
It may not be everyone's taste in popular music but in Poland, Disco Polo is filling the clubs, blaring out of countless sound-systems up and down the country and drawing even some of the most ambivalent revellers onto the dance floor as the night ...
Every day, over half a million people commute into 'The City', London's traditional financial district, and Canary Wharf, its second business hub in East London. London generates almost a quarter of the UK's GDP, mainly through financial services. ...
Almost three years after his beatification, former pope John Paul II will be made a saint by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014 along with his predecessor, Pope John XXIII. John Paul II, revered by many Catholics, and nowhere more than in Poland, died in ...
Glasgow may well be the most passionate football city on earth. Its two mighty teams, Celtic and Rangers, are known collectively as the 'Old Firm', a sobriquet which hints at the stranglehold they have had on Scottish football for over 100 years. The ...
The 1992 famine in Somalia was, in common with many famines, as much the result of the civil war as the climatic conditions. In 1991 President Barre was overthrown by opposing clans, but they failed to agree on a replacement and plunged the country into ...
On 29th August 1949 the first Russian plutonium bomb was exploded at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which came to be known as 'The Polygon'. This first detonation was followed by more than 500 nuclear explosions, both atmospheric and underground. ...
During the four year conflict in Bosnia more than 200,000 citizens were killed. Most of these were Muslim civilians murdered by paramilitaries during the ethnic cleansing of eastern and western Bosnia. Towns like Priedor, Banja Luka, Foca, Zepa and of ...
From the beginning of the Bosnian conflict in 1992, Paul Lowe takes us on a journey through Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Mostar - places that back then reverberated in the daily headlines much as Fallujah and Basra have done in more recent times. ...
It has a peculiar beauty, a concrete monolith winding across the landscape like a modernist snake in featureless grey concrete. Forty years after a war in which the Israeli military easily defeated the armies of three Arab nations and trebled its ...
For the players of FC Nepean Stars, a First Division Sierra Leonean football club, conditions could barely contrast more with the pampered lifestyle of their counterparts in Europe. Their squad of 18 players journey to matches in a single Toyota ...
'Are we protected in Pakistan?' asks graffiti on the wall of a burned-out shop in Shanti Nagar in the country's wheat belt. It provides its own stark answer: 'No'. Pakistan's three million Christians are nervous. They have been at the bottom of the ...
Graeme Williams began his photographic career as a photojournalist documenting the struggle to end apartheid. He never intended to become a photojournalist but as the clamour for Nelson Mandela's release grew in the late 1980s and the violence broke ...
Since 2010, Graeme Williams has been working on his project charting the transformation of South Africa's society since the end of minority rule. I began this project 16 years after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. As a photographer, I ...
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has left at least 200,000 people dead and an estimated two million displaced. The conflict has spread to neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic, with up to four and a half million people ...
Sleeping sickness, once thought almost eradicated through vigorous colonial control programmes in the first half of the 20th century, was for a while relegated to historical footnotes in medical textbooks. Now it's making a come back in a big way. The ...