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Urban warfare and lack of social stability

Conflict: The fact that unemployed urban youth go into drug dealing, street gangs, militias and sectarian political organizations is not surprising. Yet something else may be more important than crime prevention and counter-terrorism.
Eric Berg -

The colorful Indian microcosm

TRAVEL ESSAY: In search of a self away from the corona pandemic. In India, the western structure is turned upside down. Instead of crying for food and clean water, the homeless masses sing mantras and throw flowers to their idols to forget the hungry…
Diana Pascu -

When your country is against you

BLACK PANTS: Robert Minervini's new documentary portrays civil rightsless people in New Orleans and their struggle to survive in a country that has apparently failed them.
velinraconte@googlemail.com -

The dangerous thing about doomsday prophecies

CLIMATE ANXIETY: In reality, the world is moving forward, although fanatical activists and desperate media would like to tell us the opposite.
bjorn@nytid.no -

Gloomy everyday struggles among Scotland's poor

POVERTY: A generation of young Scots show moments of tenderness and care amidst everyday frustrations, trials, and episodes of violence.
Carmen Gray -

About the Migration Filmmaker

MIGRATION: In Lettre à Theo ("Letter to Theo"), director Élodie Lélu explores the visions and work of the late Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos related to the refugee crisis in Greece.
Sevara Pan -

The sky is not falling

In many ways, the world is becoming a better place to be, for more and more people. According to Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Bjørn Lomborg, we can thank broad economic growth for this.
bjorn@nytid.no -

Difficult and dreaming in Congo

An indomitable will meets the hopelessness of this portrait of a coal breeder in Congo.
Ellen Lande -

Their prosperity is based on our poverty

Kenyan Kisilu Musya goes from being a father and farmer in the global south to traveling the world as an activist in the global north in this documentary by Julia Dahr.
Melita Zajc -

The discourse of poverty

Extreme poverty is halved, but the gap between poor and rich persists. Why?
sandra@framtiden.no -

Speculation and slum must be on the agenda

The slum of the world is growing. There are people who make good money from it.
oddigle@online.no -

White trash

People look towards the lens, yet it is as if they would prefer to retreat and retreat to the courtyard, to the outfield, to the family, to the drug, to the church, to sleep.
Hilde Lindset -

The book requires a certain appetite for the theme

Martín Caparrós rages at the fact that billions of people go to bed hungry every night. 
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