If the shamans stop dancing and life in the rainforest loses its balance, the sky will collapse and crush everything beneath it. This story has been passed down in the Brazilian Amazon by every generation of Yanomami. But greed for gold is polluting rivers and poses a threat to the Yanomami. Their shamans are dying as the earth warms.
Afghan friends Marwa and Raha had hoped their country had seen the last of oppression. They have heard their parents’ stories about 1990s Taliban violence often enough. But in 2021, Afghanistan falls back into the hands of the terrorist group. And the friends make different choices: Marwa leaves home, Raha decides to stay.
Isey is a bourbon-swilling warrior queen, her face lit up by laugh lines, her joy infectious – and in a week she will be 100 years old. Together with her son James, who cares for her selflessly, she lives on a farm in Kawakawa, New Zealand.
While the other children play with clay in the classroom, Falta lets her gaze wander out the window: soldiers patrol the schoolyard, machine guns at the ready, gunshots ringing out in the distance. In the far north of Cameroon, a constant threat lurks in the mountains.
Mutlu Kaya is just 19 when her dream of making it as a singer comes close enough to touch: she is about to enter the finale of the TV show ‘Turkey’s Got Talent’. But then, a man guns down the Kurdish teenager. His motive: Mutlu rejected his marriage proposal. She barely survives and is left with a bullet in her head.
Lynn, Shammy, Hussein and Philip fear for their lives in their home country of Uganda – because they are queer. Clerics are calling for them to be killed in the name of God or Allah, and they are not always safe, not even from their own families.
‘That time of the month’ or ‘a visit from Aunt Flo’ – there are plenty of expressions that dance around what they are actually about: menstruation. Although menstruation affects about 50 per cent of the world's population, tasteless humour and sexist attitudes have persisted for decades.
Human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani is fighting against discrimination in the so-called ‘war on terror’. He travels around the world and is entrusted with highly sensitive personal information by people in vulnerable situations.
The worst commercial nuclear accident in US history became the country’s biggest cover-up. Time and again, the nuclear industry insisted that no one had been harmed.