“Under Foreign Skies” is a series of portraits of Dutch people abroad doing remarkable things. Dutchman Billy Barnaart is a physiotherapist, who specialises in working with the mentally disabled. After […]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
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Throughout Southeast Asia, tens of thousands of children are being trafficked. Most go to neighbouring countries, but they can be sent as far away as South Korea or Australia. Because […]
Dr Fiona Wood was named Australian of the Year in 2005 because of her outstanding leadership of the team caring for the victims of the Bali bombings. With another scientist, […]
Rajani Thiranagama was gunned down by the Tamil Tigers in 1989. She was a doctor, poet and scientist. Her crime had been to speak out against human rights abuses being […]
In the space of seven years, Jan Visser walked 40,000 kilometers, the equivalent of the Earth’s equator, keeping score with his trusty pedometre. In “The Walker”, Laura Durnford joins Jan […]
(© Unembedded.com) Thorne Anderson’s photographs have appeared in publications around the world and in 2005 he contributed to “Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq”. In this programme […]
Otto van Eck was just seventeen when he died of tuberculosis in 1798. His name and life had been totally forgotten until the recent discovery of his unique diary. It […]
In the mid 1990’s, two young women studied law – one in The Netherlands and the other in Latvia. Years later, their lives would intersect in what the United Nations […]