2017 marks the 100th anniversary of U.S. citizenship for residents of Puerto Rico, a Spanish colony for four centuries, which had been ceded to the United States just 19 years earlier, in 1898. But it's a limited form of citizenship: Island residents pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, ...

The Battle for Mosul began on October 16, 2016 with forces besieging Islamic State-controlled areas in the Nineveh Governorate surrounding Mosul. The coalition forces fighting the Islamic State consist of elements of the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga Forces, Shia Militias and US, French and British...

Five years ago, if somebody in England planned to take part in a demonstration, one would consider them a unique character. Somehow, what was happening in France on an almost weekly basis seemed not cool and British. Despite the great tradition of protest in the UK, Brits didn't bother to raise their...

First detected in late 2015, the mosquito-borne Zika virus continued to spread in Brazil throughout the following year, alarming health officials and expecting mothers that their babies will be born with an abnormal brain development called microcephaly. While researchers have yet to make a connection...

Often misinterpreted as a shroud of oppression and a flag of fundamentalism, the burka/burqa, hijab and the niqab have been the center of many controversies in the western world where it is regarded as a security risk. Many Muslim women wear a burka not because someone forced them to, ...

Approximately 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since October 9, 2016 after the Burmese military launched clearance operations. The U.N. Human Rights Office said in their report that Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings, torture and gang rapes ...

Popularly known as The Quarry, the Bakoteh dump site is all that remains of an old strip mine. The craters the old stone excavations left behind now harbor the garbage of half a million people in Kanifing, the most densely populated region of Gambia. This is an open pit mine where waste ...

This series of photographs documents the lives of temporary foreign workers in Quebec. Most of these workers come from Central America, Africa, and South East Asia. They work during periods ranging from 4 to 10 months, after which they are sent home where they anxiously await an invitation to return...

Lim Mony, Yi Soksan, Nay Vanda, Ny Sokha and Ny Chakrya -- these are the five Cambodian human rights activists who are in pre-trial detention for 365 days. Acknowledging this one-year mark, I prepared a photo exhibition in Phnom Penh called 'I AM THE FIVE...

Just in Kampala, Uganda, there are more than 10,000 children living on the streets. To get money for food, they work in building demolition, unloading trucks or helping to sell food. The youngest children work collecting plastic bottles or metal scrap. Street children often lack access to clean...

I am a documentary photographer working with author Katherine Russell to tell the stories of people coming out of prison and reentering society. Our stories of 25 participants will be completed by the end of 2017 in a series of photographs and interviews, The exhibit will open at CEPA Gallery ...

This report was produced over several months at the "House of Rights Don Gallo" an occupied building in the center of Padua from December 2013 until March 2017. At Don Gallo House live over 50 African migrants. Most of the people at Casa Don Gallo have a permit to stay in Italy, but a...

Venezuelan artists in Colombia trying to find their way to a better life. Their dance is full of dream and hope for better conditions for their family back in Venezuela.They dance to represent their country, they dance for hope, and they dance because they believe in a better future ...