Social Issues / Current Affairs
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Geneva, the capital of human rights, is also the capital of oil trading. One third of the world's oil is traded from the shores of Lake Geneva. But this honeymoon between Geneva and black gold is not without its ups and downs. Gunvor, one of the...
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How and why does one become a jihadist? In September 2020, a radicalized man stabbed a young Portuguese man to death in a kebab shop in Morges, Switzerland. Last January, the man nicknamed "the Emir", a man of Bosnian origin who converted to Islam,...
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He had everything going for him: sumptuous mistresses, despite a sham marriage, the prestige of power over Spain, whose democratic transition he had ensured after Francos's military dictatorship. Would money have been his undoing? His passion for...
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While the world experienced one of the worst pandemics ever, the wild animals of the African Savannah suffered a genuine odyssey which was never told before. A television crew, trapped in the Masai Mara when the world locked down, was able to...
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By constructing an iron fence, right through the beautiful KUPA-region, Slovenia has made Croatia somewhat an unwilling buffer for the influx of the refugees coming from Bosnia, trying to reach Europe. Of cause of the fence, the usual way of life...
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How far can the greed of slum landlords go? This investigation into the living conditions of Filipino workers in Geneva reveals a sordid traffic in which an apartment can be rented by the room at exorbitant prices, sometimes to more than ten...
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From the 1980s until 2010, the NSA spied through a backdoor in the Solaris operating system that equipped hardware sold by Sun Microsystems to countless Swiss companies and universities. Was the American company, taken over by Oracle in 2009, a...
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Each day, the Carlingford ferry brings people over the border between British-controlled Northern-Ireland and EU member Ireland, in an era the debate on Brexit and its consequences is predominant. Staying or remaining, both options create the same...
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In a remote village between the rocky mountains in Kurdistan, everyone is in love with football, but there is no plain field to play the game, till the children decide to fulfil their dream. They climbed up the mountain to build the best place to...
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During the last two decades, thousands of unaccompanied Moroccan minors have arrived in Europe irregularly and without the company of an adult. Minor Lives gains unprecedented access to a group of Moroccan minors that have left their country and try...
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Immersion into the extraordinary world of men and women who challenge their visual disability through skiing. Some are blind from birth or following an accident. Some only perceive vague shapes, light and colours; all are accompanied by a guide in...
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They present themselves as "shamans", "medicine men" with mysterious healing powers. Some of them do not hesitate to take advantage of gullible Europeans to thrive on a juicy business where therapy, training, mysticism and traditional Amerindian...
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This report shot in Sicily and Nigeria investigates the sex trafficking of young Nigerian women forced into prostitution throughout Europe after being manipulated and bewitched during voodoo rituals. Searching for a better life, many take guidance...
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What is the true cost of cheap clothes, a large part of which are now made in Ethiopia? With wages almost ten times lower than in China, Ethiopia has become the new Eldorado of the fasion industry. For global corporations like H&M, "made in...
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In southwestern Guinea Bissau there are some islands where a very special people live, the Bissago. What is it that makes them so special? It is not the fact of living in balance and harmony with the spectacular nature that surrounds them, taking...
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European women and adolescents tell us give us unprecedented testimonies within the Islamic caliphate. They succumbed to what the ISIS promised them and now they are part of the 11,000 women and children imprisoned in Kurdish-controlled camps in...
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