After 20 years of internecine war in Somalia, fuelled by religious extremism, poverty and intimidation, Dadaab refugee village has become the third largest city in Kenya. A city of death, disease and pestilence: consumed in equal parts by flood and d...
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Maryam Bibi has dedicated herself to improving the lives of women and girls in the fiercely conservative frontier provinces of Pakistan. And increasingly she has to go about her work under the threat of US drone strikes. For ...
The coming of age of Swiss vegetarianism
There were times when most Swiss saw their fellow vegetarian countrymen as pale, weak and pitiful. But times have changed: vegetarianism has become cool and chic, with plenty of celebrity chefs signing on to promote the joy o...
She sits on a filthy pavement that runs along Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi, near the city’s ancient fire station. She holds a baby, probably a few months old. She begs passers-by for change and a few people drop coins in her h...
Looking back at Lookout: 40 years of emergency housing
In 1971, Vancouver housing advocates began renting out a room in the Patricia Hotel at Hastings and Dunlevy between midnight and 8 a.m. every night. The room contained two beds, one rollaway cot and about 20 people lying wall...
