Who are the Northern Ireland Loyalists? How do they talk about themselves and how do others see them? For the global mass media and in social media (particulary after the recent parliamentary elections in the UK and an agreement with Theresa May) they are perceived to be the armed wing of the DUP, ...

Bangladesh is the worst victim of global climate change, hence a huge population faces floods every year. People move to the nearest highland to take temporary shelter, keeping their home behind in the flash floods. Until the water reaches above their knees, they try to remain in their homes hoping ...

Young and Yemeni in NYC  Documents the lives of Yemeni-Americans living in New York City during a period of immigration and transition. As thousands of Yemenis flee violence and hardship in Yemen, new ways of life must be formed. The transition can be seen most clearly through the new gen...

Loading and unloading cut/waste leather particles in incinerator furnace to prepare fertilizer and fish feed. These primitive furnace units burn and boil shaving (byproducts of finished leather products), flesh linings and trimmings dust in the East Kolkata Wetlands near Bantala to make ...

More than a year passes. The day was March 31, 2016 during a hot scorching period. A flyover connecting Vivekananda Road became curse of the daily life of Kolkata. The fault of structural design, choice of materials and a faulty engineering has wiped out the huge number...

Waste pickers play an essential role in the livability and sustainability of large cities like Mumbai. Every day, thousands of them roam the streets and dumping sites to recycle the waste created by others. Despite their positive impact on the environment, they do not get the credit they deserve. ...

Leading up to August's full moon, an estimated 250,000 visitors descend on Taung Pyone, a small rural village 20km north of Mandalay for the country's largest nat festival. Nats are spirits that have sat alongside Myanmar's Buddhist culture, since the 11th century. There are...

Despite the growing fracture and balkanization of the world, most of us still believe that children will be children. Many of these children, rather than being left alone at home, accompany a parent to a workplace in the fields, on a riverbed, any place their parents go to scratch out a living. ...

Victory Day commemorates the end of WWII. It is the day of commemoration for the people who were killed during the war of 1939-1945. Nowadays, Europe celebrates Victory Day on May 8 (with the date of the beginning of war in 1939). Russia and post-Soviet countries, such as Belarus and Central Asian ...

The resistance of the Standing Rock Sioux to the Dakota Access Pipeline drew worldwide attention to the struggles for clean water and indigenous rights in 2016. An oil pipeline on treaty land and under the Missouri River was seen as too dangerous to ignore. What ensued was the  spontaneous ...

For the 70 million people living in the lower Mekong region, the great 2,500 mile river is the source of life and security. All rivers flow to it, and everyone depends on it and its tributaries for the fish and food they live on. Laos, Cambodia,Thailand and Vietnam share the lower Mekong basin...

In 2014, I heard about the Islamic State's siege on Shingal city in Iraq and later on the Kurdish city of Kobane, in northern Syria, I became concerned about the Kurds' fate in these areas. In October 2014, I flew to Turkey and started to follow the situation on the border ...

The village of Shib Deraz is on Qeshm Island in Iran. The wedding party is held in its traditional and special way. Neither bride nor groom see each other, and the wedding party continues for several days and meanwhile the beautiful traditional party is watched. One of these costumes is ...

The deserts of La Guajira peninsula in northern Colombia are home to the country's largest indigenous group, the Wayuu. They are also the site of the world's largest open-pit coal mine, Cerrejon. La Guajira has always been parched, but the Wayuu's semi-nomadic lifestyle and their...