poverty

Just weeks after the earthquake that took more than 200,000 lives, Avi Lewis finds that debates over how to rebuild Haiti are already underway. (22:35 min)

Vanguard News travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe’s growing appetite for cocaine is funding the growth of West African crime syndicates and fueling a turf war with Italy’s mafia. (21 min)

Fault Lines travels to Rio to look at the crackdown in Rio’s Favelas, and what it means for the people of the city. (19 min)

We are rerunning this film with the complete higher quality version. This is an excellent bio-documentary on the life and war photography of world renowned James Nachtwey. Enjoy. (80 min)

Nigeria’s main rebel group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), is threatening to call off its ceasefire with the government if foreign oil companies do not leave their land. (3:58 min)

Giving money to poor farmers not to cultivate the land may sound a strange way to lift people out of poverty and preserve the environment but a pilot project in Vietnam is aiming to do just that. (2:44 min)

Repression is the order of the day in the neighborhoods of the Honduran capital, forcing the poor to fight or starve. (11:11 min)

A Channel 4 documentary showing the atrocious conditions inside North Korea. (50 min, 5 segments)