At Yangon Film School, Myanmar’s first and only film school, young documentary film-makers courageously ignored the Burmese rules of the game at a time when pushing the limits was still harshly …
2011 will go down as a key year in the history of the Arab world and the Middle East as a whole. The revolution on Cairo’s Tahrir Square defined the collective image of the ‘Arab spring’. The …
• Strengthening the poor population in the diamond region of Kono, Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) € 24,886.00 …
• Institutional promotion of the self-help organisation for apartheid victims, Khulumani Support Group • Support for children in families and communities affected by HIV/AIDS, …
• Human rights work, Corporación de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo (CODEPU) € 5,500.00 …
• 20 years of AMDH – review and strategy development, Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme (AMDH) • Improvement of health services to migrants in Nouadhibou, Mission …
• Health services for chronically ill and community-oriented emergency aid in Gaza & Westbank, Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) • Improving basic health services for …
• Flood aid for returnees from Kanakarayankulan, Social Economical & Environmental Developers (SEED) • Provision of land for a centre for people with special needs, SEED • …
• Contribution to AME annual budget for 2011 and 2012, Association Malienne des Expulsés (AME) • Support to deported migrants in Mali and improvement of reception conditions, Association …
In a windowless hall young women and men with facemasks and gloves sit in long rows sifting through yellowing, dusty books of files. The staff treat the material with the greatest care. For these …
guatemala
Katunayake Free Trade Zone is 30 kilometres from the capital Colombo. ‘Eighty per cent of those employed here are women,’ says Anton Marcus from medico’s partner the Free Trade Zone and General …
sri lanka
The West African country of Mali is a migration hub with traditional routes within Africa to Arabic countries that stretch back to antiquity. This is partly a result of the weakness of the economy …
mali
Health is a human right. But in the rural areas of the West Bank, access to health services is considerably reduced by the Israeli occupation policies. Their goal is evidently to oust the Palestinians living there into densely populated enclaves fully controlled by Israel and geographically separated from each other. This film shows how medico's partner PMRS nevertheless manages to provide basic health services to these cut-off communities. …
israel/palestine
Medico partner Comet-ME, an Israeli-Palestinian organization providing basic energy services to off-grid communities using environmentally and socially sustainable methods, has just opened its new …
The life of the people in Shaeb Al Buttum, under Israeli occupation and without water, electric power and proper roads, is a little better after installing a solar and wind power system. The …
MASAFER YATTA (Ma'an) -- Development organizations and green energy pioneers face a political quagmire when working in Palestinian communities under full Israeli control. In recent months, the …
Juliano Mer Khamis was an extremely paradoxical phenomenon. Son of a Jewish Israeli mother and a Palestinian father, he embodied the border. He did not allow himself to be confined to one camp or the …
Stigmatization and discrimination of deportees has for a long time made the discourse on deportation a taboo in Sierra Leone. Those deported simply withdraw from society fearing provocation and false accusation from their friends and even family members …
sierra leone
Sierra Leone: Sickening conditions surrounding wealth creation – The involvement of the South African-based company Koidu Holdings in a system of exploitation …
The Israeli Civil Administration is planning to demolish humanitarian projects worth more than …
A Mai-based self-help organisation for deportees provides first aid and legal advice - and is making …
How much "collateral damage" is permitted? Human rights work in a battlefield: a window onto the war …
Health work in the Palestinian enclaves …
