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Caught between Poverty and Politics: Undocumented Migrants in Greece

September 25, 2012

Photo Essay by Stephen Boyle* In Greece, mismanaged immigration policies, an incompetent, bureaucratic, and sluggish asylum system, an unprecedented and catastrophic economic crisis, and continuing or increasing instability in nearby Africa, Asia and elsewhere have resulted in high levels of undocumented immigration in recent years. Determining accurate numbers of the undocumented in Greece has proved [...]

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Growing Up Cambodian: Childhood and Crisis Three Decades after the Khmer Rouge

Photo Essay by Nathan William Meyer* It was Year Zero.  Books were burned, religion outlawed, money abolished, schools closed, and teachers, doctors, and lawyers killed.  Wearing glasses or speaking a foreign language was crime enough to merit death.  Families were turned out of homes, cities emptied, and a nation was slowly worked to death in [...]

Flight of the Golden Peacock: The Return of Aung San Suu Kyi

Photo Essay by Abhijit Dutta* It was not too long ago when Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, was considered in the same league as failed states like North Korea or Iran.  Human rights violations, crushing poverty, absence of a free press, a crisis of healthcare, brutal dictatorship, and complete isolation – [...]

Childhood Blindness Prevention: Seva Canada Programs in Malawi

Photo Essay by Paolo Patruno* Seva Canada is a charitable organization providing high-quality, comprehensive eye care services for children and adults in Malawi, as well as 8 other countries in the developing world. For children, congenital and developmental cataracts are the leading causes of blindness. Seva’s Childhood Blindness Program in Malawi is dedicated to reducing [...]


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