TAG: Social trends

South America

Brazil: the Amazon – indigenous tribes fight back (2024)

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The Yanomami staunchly oppose the destruction of their habitat. Their shaman undertakes a world tour to give a face and a voice to their campaign of resistance.
North America

USA: wokeism – is the USA on the brink of a revolution? (2023)

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11K views. To be woke is to be aware of the discrimination suffered by minorities and of white privilege. But some feel the woke revolution has gone too far.
Africa

Tanzania: What It’s Like To Have Albinism (2018)

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Oscar Duke, an NHS doctor with albinism heads to Tanzania and Malawi to discover what life is like for other people with the same genetic condition.
Europe

United Kingdom: migrants in the channel  (2024)

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Some migrants who crossed the Channel illegally, making dangerous crossings in small boats are now trying to cross the sea in the other direction
Europe

Denmark: provoking the limits of tolerance

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Denmark has prided itself on its high standard of living, its social welfare system and its open-mindedness. However, cracks have begun to appear.
Asia & Pacific

Japan: inside the Yakuza syndicate

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Anton Kusters, a Belgian photographer, was allowed a rare glimpse inside a Yakuza family in early 2009. He documented the family for two years.
Asia & Pacific

Mongolia: nomads’ ultimate dilemma

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As the economy has boomed, a dilemma is imposed; maintain the relationship with nature, or cave in to the force of the economy.
Asia & Pacific

India: prostitution villages

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Our reporters looked around the villages - and found signs of hope: The young generation fights for better education and rights.
The World

Barbie: the world’s greatest social influencer?

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Barbie: the first doll with her own career. Still, she’s an object of love and hate. More than any other toy.
South America

Brazil: the social life in Rio’s biggest favela

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What’s it really like to live in a favela? What do people there need to do to survive? Do they have many - or any - opportunities to move out?
North America

United States: the lives of the Amish

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A life just as it was 300 years ago: the Amish in the US. They live according to their own rules and reject technological advances.
South America

El Salvador: the arrest of 6000 gang members in 10 days

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El Salvador has continued its crackdown on what officials are calling a war on gangs as the government has arrested 6,000 gang members.
South America

Honduras: escaping violence and poverty

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Every year, tens of thousands of people from the central American nation of Honduras leave their home country to try and reach the United States.
North America

United States: the California homeless problem is beyond belief

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There’s homeless encampments all over the place. They’re on the side of the roads in dirt lots. There’s long stretches of them on sidewalks.
Africa

Sierra Leone: the social circumstances of diamond mining

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More than 10 years after the war, entrepreneurs are rehabilitating the mining sector; for more traceability and fair prices paid to the miners.

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