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Canada
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WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...
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North America
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Land of the Free: US Incarceration Rates

According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, no other country incarcerates a higher percentage of its population that the United States. The latest studies show that 716 people per 100,000 are incarcerated in Ameri...
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Moldova
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WATCH: Mama Illegal

Women leaving Moldova and crossing the border into Romania and then on into Western Europe to work illegally has become a mass phenomenon, leaving children without mothers, and husbands without wives. Bordering Romania and the...
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Human Rights

Infographic: The Ideals of Social Justice

Equal political rights, equal social rights and equal economic rights: The University of New England‘s infographic for their Masters Degree in Social Work reveals some alarming figures in American society. We should all h...
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Human Rights
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Agent Orange: Will it Ever End?

Photographer Brian Driscoll’s “Will it Ever End” photo series tells the stories of those still affected by Agent Orange. Used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War with the aim of defoliating the dense jungle...
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Human Rights
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WATCH: Strong to the Finish for Mongolia’s Children

Cut off by sharp mountains and the sweeping Gobi desert to the south Mongolia is an adventurers dream. The harsh yet mesmerising landscape and rich culture makes it one of the last places on earth that is a true test to the ski...
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Video & Photography

WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
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Healing the Earth

Manila is in a pollution crisis. Currently home to 12 million people it is no surprise that the countries infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the population boom. This dense sprawling urban environment forces much of ...
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Video & Photography
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WATCH: The True Cost of Coal

Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
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