The catastrophic collapse of the Rana Plaza shopping centre and factory complex in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh in April 2014 claimed the lives of over 1,100 people, mainly factory workers employed in one of the numerous garment ...

Bangladesh's leather industry is worth over $ 1 billion a year and around 20,000 people are employed in the hundreds of tanneries operating along the banks of the Buriganga River in the southwest of Dhaka, the capital. Yet while this industry ...

In the Spanish province of Murcia massive building developments are being thrown up along with water guzzling 18 hole golf courses. At the same time Spain has experienced its worst droughts since 1947, river and reservoir levels have been at record lows,...

If I have time on my hands I often choose to walk from my home in Borough, just south of the river Thames, to my office in Old Street in the centre of London. The journey is approximately 2.7 miles, or 4.3 kilometres. Walking in one day, I began to idly ...

In Calea Vacaresti, on the outskirts of Bucharest, four families have made their homes in the dried out basin of an artificial lake. Eking out a living collecting scrap metal to sell to local car wreckers, they build shacks from bricks, plastic and ...

Sicily's shores have been the first landing point for thousands of would-be immigrants to the European Union. Many have been able to continue to Italy's mainland, escaping the attentions of the authorities and dispersing across the continent in pursuit ...

The Greek port of Patras is home to around 3,000 illegal immigrants. Most are Afghans, although there are also significant numbers of Iranians and Uzbeks. From here they try to find passage to other European destinations by hiding in ships, ...

For nearly two hundred years, a small group of women in the town of Cachoeira have joined together in a sisterhood that celebrates freedom from slavery, women's resistance and Afro-Brazilian culture. Irmandade da Boa Morte - Sisterhood of the Good ...

In the tense early days of May, as the Greek government unveiled a raft of harsh austerity measures aimed at tackling the country's crippling debt and dire public finances, Alfredo D'Amato gauged the effect of the crisis on people's day-to-day lives. ...

Kuduro is the soundtrack to life in 21st century Angola, the music that has given back the happiness and the desire to dance to a country emerging from decades of civil war. The streets of the capital, Luanda, are dominated by the sound systems of ...

If it was a bird, Luanda would be a huge parrot, drunk of abyss and blue in colour. If it was a catastrophe, it would be an earthquake: uncontrolled energy that shakes deep down to the earth's foundations. If it was a woman, it would be a mulatta ...

It is early morning. Only the voices of fishermen cleaning their boats in the harbour and the gentle patter of a few people walking along the main road can be heard. As breakfast time approaches the warm smell of pastry floats through the air. ...

In less than a month, ordinary Tunisians from across the social spectrum brought down the cleptocratic 23-year regime of president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and unleashed an avalanche of popular protest movements that continue to rumble across the ...

Mozambique's vibrant Zion Churches are a specifically African expression of the global Pentecostal movement that is quickly becoming the fastest growing religious denomination in the world with an eight-fold increase in adherents over the past half ...

Kuapa Kokoo, or 'Good Cocoa Farmers Company', is a co-operative that is run by, and works for, Ghanaian cocoa farmers. It was set up in 1993 to protect farmers during the liberalisation of the cocoa market that took place in the early 1990s, and now has ...

Justice is a journey in post-war Sierra Leone. People negotiate and experience the justice system differently according to their means, their gender, their status and even the place they live. The system itself is varied and complex, with many routes...