Chifuniro Kandiado clutches her baby, who automatically suckles her breast. After having to drop out of school, lately, she spends her days looking after her child. A forlorn look falls across her face as she recounts the night the baby...
About six hours from Nairobi is the little village of Umoja. The dusty plains are golden in the light of day and farm animals roam in the sweltering heat. A babble of children’s laughter fills the air. Adorned in vibrantly...
Looking at Kelley Gunter, a person might make presumptions. Her smile is infectious, she is slim, pretty, and has legs that go on for miles. Unbeknownst to many, Kelley once weighed 391 pounds (177 kilograms) and has lost 243 pounds...
There is that age old saying: “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” But what happens when that “time” extends into something else – something that may be far dastardlier than the initial crime, itself? Thousands of...
Nestled in the banks of the Padma river – Bangladesh’s side of India’s famous Ganges River – is Daulatdia. The town bustles and coughs up pollution from the ferries, buses, and trucks that come in droves. Traffic comes to a...
Mariama Fofanah stares vacantly into the mirror, mechanically applying makeup on to her face. She never winces – not even once – as she covers her bruised face and swollen, black eyes. She is one of the estimated 300,000 prostitutes...
“My friends and I were walking by the National Palace one evening when we encountered a couple of humanitarian men. The men called us over and showed us their penises. They offered us 100 Haitian gourdes (US$2.80) and some chocolate...
“Sometimes, you see that a little boy goes into the toilet and immediately, an adult detainee goes after them, and when the boy comes out, you don’t need to be told what has happened to him,” a former warder at...
The mighty lion is emblematic with the arid wilderness of the African plains. But unbeknownst to many, there is another habitat in which even more roam. All across South Africa, thousands of lions are bred in farms for the sole...
Rosie* (whose name has been changed for anonymity) is an 11-year-old girl with a smile that lights up a room. She dreams of getting a good education that will facilitate an upstanding career. But Rosie is not like other little...
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