1 March is Zero Discrimination Day
Discrimination still affects many people in different environments, from schools to workplaces and hospitals. Zero Discrimination Day aims to enhance diversity.
Free Solo, live beyond fear. Climber Alex Honnold’s story wins the Oscar for best documentary feature
Alex Honnold is the first person to have climbed El Capitan, in California, without a rope. Free Solo, which won Best documentary feature at the 2019 Oscars, tells the story of his historic achievement.
From Bangladeshi brothels, the voices of the prostitutes trapped in the prison of sexual slavery
Bangladeshi brothels like those in Faridpur are prisons with invisible doors in which women are forced into a vicious cycle of slavery and social exclusion. Whose chains are hard to break.
The story of Chris McCandless, the intrepid adventurer who inspired Into the Wild
It’s been 27 years since the death of Chris McCandless, the young man who dropped everything to experience authentic life in Alaska’s wilderness. His story has been told in the book and movie Into the Wild.
6 February is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
Secondo l’Unicef sono almeno 200 milioni le donne che hanno subito mutilazioni genitali femminili, con drammatiche conseguenze fisiche e psicologiche.
Theresa Kachindamoto, the woman saving girls from child marriage in Malawi
The “Terminator” of child marriages. This is the nickname given to Theresa Kachindamoto, a tribal chief who annuls child marriages in Malawi to take girls back to school and give them a future.
Made in Bangladesh. The truth about the social and environmental impact of leather tanneries
A journey to discover leather tanneries in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, among terrible working conditions, pollution and laws left unenforced.
Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the doctor who “mends” women
Denis Mukwege received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize seventy years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. While taking care of women who had been raped by Congolese soldiers, he saw atrocities he doesn’t want to hide.
Season’s greetings, the Banksy mural in Port Talbot transforms snowflakes into air pollution
Snowflakes can be deceiving. Banksy transformed them from a marker of winter festivities into a symbol of the plague of air pollution in his mural Season’s greetings in Port Talbot, Wales.
Unhappily ever after, fairy tales don’t have a happy ending in the real world
Artist Jeff Hong imagined how Disney fairy tales’ characters would live in the real world: the result – or better the ending – is everything but happy.