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The Rastafari movement, founded by descendents of black slaves fighting for emancipation, challenged the established religious and political order introduced by white colonial powers. The young religion reinterpreted the bible…

The renaissance of the Arab world, so long in gestation and so often aborted, now seems to be happening. It is the people who have asserted their power, having transcended…

In October 2011, Bangkok-based photographer Damir Sagolj traveled with Alertnet, a Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service, and Médecins Sans Frontières to North Korea, at the request of the regime’s…

Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. In Swaziland, a tiny African nation of one million, the tradition of polygamy and a relaxed attitude toward sexuality have proven to…

Seeking God, spreading hatred and racism, and destroying the American landscape. These American States, as they are sometimes called, are individual and, at times, as violently divided as the people…

Advance and Retreat in Russia’s Arctic Russian bureaucrats call the Arctic the “Zone of Absolute Discomfort” - an icy hinterland awful to live in, but just habitable enough for hired…

Erika Larsen’s photographs explore the symbiotic relationship between Sámi reindeer herders and the environment, their existence in today’s world and their ancestral roots. Native to the Arctic Circle of northern…

In 2003, dozens of families occupied the Galpao da Araujo Barreto, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Before moving there, the families had lived in the dangerous…