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04.12
2012
Women and Microcredit in Bangladesh – January 2012
Women and Microcredit in Bangladesh
Women and Microcredit in Bangladesh – January 2012
Microfinance, also known as microcredit, has rapidly grown in Bangladesh during the 1990s and it has enjoyed correspondingly growing prominence.
It was actually born in the aftermath of the country’s war of independence in the 1970s. The extreme poverty and hunger in that period led an Economics professor at the University of Chittagong, Muhammad Y -
03.14
2012
Women and Microcredit in the Philippines - February 2012
Women and microcredit in the Philippines
Women and Microcredit in the Philippines – February 2012
Microcredit is one of the most visible innovation in anti-poverty policy where it has been successful in bringing formal financial services to the poor.
Microfinance programs have the potential to transform power relations and empower the poor—both men and women. In well-run microfinance programs, there is a relationship of respect b -
02.26
2012
Microcredit and women empowerment in Burkina Faso
Women and microcredit in Burkina Faso
Women and microcredit in Burkina Faso
Microcredit is the most visible innovation in anti-poverty policy in the last half-century, and in three decades it has grown dramatically. Now with almost 130 million borrowers, microcredit has undoubtedly been successful in bringing formal financial services to the poor. Many believe it has done much more, and that by putting money into the hands of poor families ( -
02.06
2012
Microcredit and women empowerment in Morocco
Women and Microcredit in Morocco
Women and Microcredit in Morocco
Women & Microcredit / Morocco
Microcredit is the most visible innovation in anti-poverty policy in the last half-century, and in three decades it has grown dramatically. Now with almost 130 million borrowers, microcredit has undoubtedly been successful in bringing formal financial services to the poor. Many believe it has done much more, and that by putting money in -
12.29
2011
Röadkill, new book on Motörhead coming out in 2012.
Röadkill, new book coming out in 2012.
The book will include texts from Lemmy, Slash, Brian May, Stefan Chirazzi … As Stefan Chirazzi of Motörhead once wrote about Pep’s photographs:
“Thanks to Pep Bonet, you will feel like the elephant in the room, like the fly on the wall… like the ultimate voyeur. Because there are people who have known Motörhead for decades who have never seen th… Read more -
10.28
2007
17 Milagroso, San Lazaro ('El viejo'), Cuba 1999 - 2007
17 Milagroso, San Lazaro
17 MilagrosoSan Lazaro (‘el viejo’), also called Babalu Aye, is the most venerated saint in Cuba, an amalgam of a Christian saint and a Yoruba god worshiped for centuries by Afrocubans. Every year on San Lazaro’s Day (17 December), thousands of devotees from all over Cuba make a pilgrimage to the Santuario del Rincon, in Santiago de la Vega. A number of them are sick people and beggars,
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10.26
2009
Poland
blackfields: poland’s coal industry
Poland is the second largest coal producer and consumer in all of Europe and consequently one of the most polluted and polluting countries. From all fossil fuels brown coal is the one that has the biggest impact on climate change, producing 1/3 of the worlds CO2 emissions.Pep Bonet visited the region of Upper Silesia – one of the most heavily industrialized and polluted areas in the contin
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10.28
2007
City of rest / Sierra leone 2006 - 2007
City of rest / Sierra leone
The civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2001) was labeled “the cruelest in Africa’s recent history”. It was characterized by destruction – of property, but more so of human lives and values. Tens of thousands of civilians died, hundreds of thousands were raped, burnt, tortured, enslaved, mutilated. Many patients in Kissy Mental Hospital are psychotic because of severe drugs and alcoho
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12.19
2007
Sierra Leone, December, 2002 - 2007
One Goal / Sierra leone
One Goal – amputees soccer team
Sierra Leone’s amputees are a grim legacy of its 1991-2001 civil war. One of the most brutal aspects of the conflict was the use of amputation as a weapon of fear, by both factions. Many of the victims were innocent young men, who were targeted in order to stop them fighting for an opposing side.At the Murray Town Camp for Amputees in Freetown, at one time h -
10.26
2006
India
India – Injecting Death – HIV&AIDS
At the outermost bounds of a booming India, drug routes cut across the poor Northeastern states touching Myanmar. Produced in the Golden Triangle, pure heroine easily enters Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland to fuel one of the fiercest Hiv-Aids epidemics India has to face. In the 1990s, massively injected with shared needles, heroine became the perfect vector for Hiv. In Manipur 40 to 60% of drug u
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05.18
2008
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Honduras – Forced identity – HIV&AIDS
Honduras, April 2008The HIV/Aids epidemic is generally concentrated in high-risk populations such as men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, prisoners, the Garifuna (an Afro-Caribbean population group) in the case of Honduras, street children and the security forces.Honduran homosexuals and transsexuals are common victims of family, church, political and even police haras
