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Heart and Soul: Finding Falun Gong
It’s been more than two decades since the Chinese government launched a crackdown on Falun Gong. The spiritual group claims practitioners face mass a…
2 years, 3 months ago
Assignment: Taught to fear - corporal punishment in the classroom
In Kenya, corporal punishment in schools has been banned for over twenty years, yet young students are being beaten by their teachers on a daily basi…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Raspberry Visa
The ‘Raspberry Visa’ is the colloquial name given to the Portuguese passport that workers picking berries in Western Portugal can apply for after 7 y…
2 years, 4 months ago
In the Studio: Kieran Stanley - Designing a Zoo
Zoo designer Kieran Stanley has created some of the world's most impressive spaces to care for animals ranging from the Indian rhinoceros to the gian…
2 years, 4 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Jewish-Palestinian couples
Observing the suffering on both sides of the Israel and Gaza war, are couples and families around the world in which individuals with Jewish and Pale…
2 years, 4 months ago
Heart and Soul: The New York Supreme Court's first female Hasidic judge
Rachel Freier was 30 when she started her training to be an attorney, and many people told her she was making a mistake. Growing up in an ultra-ortho…
2 years, 4 months ago
Assignment: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Russian Theatre
Tatiana Frolova wasn’t born to be a theatre director. She grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s in a cut-off part of a closed country, the Soviet Far East. S…
2 years, 4 months ago
Africa's urban future: What next?
Faced with the ever-quickening pace of urbanisation, what is the future for Africa's swelling cities? Experts predict that Africa could be home to fo…
2 years, 4 months ago
In the Studio: PAC NYC
September 2023 sees the opening of PAC NYC – the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York. It’s the final building in the new piazza, situated on …
2 years, 4 months ago
Other people's children
Mothers from all over the world leave their families in search of economic opportunities elsewhere – and they often end up working as nannies, which …
2 years, 4 months ago