A few weeks after the last bombardments on Gaza, life trying to recover. The destroyed buildings are almost all rebuilt, however, some traces are still visible. Most promises are not respected. The fishing area is not expanded steadily, hospitals are desperately short of medecine, electrics cuts are still too frequent....
Natascia Aquilano: Sons of Maidan
Ukraine's eastern periphery is today nothing more than a heap of destroyed buildings, where people live daily with the roar of mortars and exploding grenades because of the conflict started in 2014 in Maidan Square that still continues to hurt the nation. About her project "Sons of Maidan" says Natascia:...
Alberto Bernasconi: Cruising on the Biggest Boat in the World
Since may 2016 Harmony of the Seas has been the world's largest cruise ship in numbers. Just a few of them: 227.000 gross tons, 10 millions hours by 2500 workers fto built it, state-rooms for 5.500 guests plus few for 2.000 crew members, 18 decks, 23 swimming pools, 24 elevators,...
Olga Ingurazova: Wolf Story
This is a series of interlaced stories that mirror the devastating war that struck a disputed region of the Caucasus and the aftermath of its geopolitical isolation. It is a story of a man and his homeland that were alienated from each other yet remaining within one mutual world of...
Will Baxter: Burundi – Breaking Point
More than a year has passed since Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza plunged the nation into crisis when he announced he would seek an unconstitutional third term. That move sparked deadly street protests and a failed coup attempt, and in the wake of these events the country’s security forces have been...
Javier Fergo: Immigratio
The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when an increasing number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southern Europe. They came from areas such as Western and South Asia, Africa,...
Giacomo Sini: Yazidi’s Tales
Ezidi people (or Yazidis in English) are a religious group of about half a million people who is native of the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. They share the same language and much of the culture of the Kurds of Turkey and Syria. Because of their attachment to a cult...
Luigi Avantaggiato: Where the West Sets
In the past few years, international governments, institutions, and media have used the expression “refugee crisis” to describe rising numbers of undocumented individuals and families fleeing to Europe from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where they face harsh challenges, including war, poverty, persecution, and human rights violations. Hoping...
Stefania Prandi: Tomato Women
Immigrant female workers are sexually harassed and coerced in greenhouses and fields housing Italian vegetables, which are grown to be exported internationally. The Italian media have focused their attention on the exploitative conditions endured by the immigrant workers in the Italian greenhouses but haven't considered enough the gender issues, mostly...
Stefano Stranges: The Two Faces of the Rebellion
Ukraine, 2014. A country divided by internal tensions between those who look up to Europe and those who still feel a strong legacy (and attraction) to the neighboring former Soviet power, a country subject to international political pressure and torn in the east by a war more and more painful....