Iraq in pieces, and money down the drain

Billions of dollars have been allocated to rebuild Iraq, but average citizens are seeing little of it in their lives… Malnourished Iraqi children stand outside the highway's toilets looking for alms. Their job is to clean the overflowing toilets on the motorway from the Jordanian border to Baghdad. The actual road is in remarkable condition, accept for […]

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Newroz: The forbidden Kurdish festival

A traditional holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Kurdish people from a mythical tyrant is under threat… It is Newroz festival today. Newroz means 'new day' in Kurdish. They say this 'new day festival' is being celebrated in all Eastern cultures but for Kurdish people it means a lot more than a new day that says […]

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Society’s quest for the fountain of youth

As women are bombarded with images of flawless models masquerading as older women regaining their youth, one woman fears for the effects on her daughter… In this age of beauty and youth-obsessed society, it seems that magazines have found a great marketing tool advertising products that promise to transform average middle-aged women into beautiful super-models […]

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Journalistic privilege: A democratic pillar

The job of the journalist has never been an easy one, but governments threaten to make it all but impossible if they remove reporters' privilege… They must seek information that no-one wants to give, endanger themselves and their families by going into war zones and areas of violent conflict, publish stories that reveal injustices or […]

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Gay marriage courts global rift

Who has the right to refuse two partners marriage? Someone who has never even met the couples concerned: enter President Bush… Apparently a religious man, US President George W Bush moved last month to put a constitutional ban on same sex marriages. Mr Bush used his weekly radio address to deliver a plea for the […]

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