Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Rodrigo Cabrita in "Le Temps"



Rodrigo Cabrita's picture on a police drug intervention was today featured in swiss newspaper "Le Temps". It is the main picture of an article about drug consuming decriminalization in Portugal.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Honduras - a country in transition



Peter Pereira/4SEE

Honduras is bordered by Guatemala to the west and El Salvador and Nicaragua to the south.

Like its neighbors, Honduras struggles to not be left behind as the west rolls into the twenty first century at full steam.According to the World Bank Honduras is the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti, Nicaragua).With more than 50 percent of the population living below the poverty line and 28 percent unemployed, Hondurans frequently turn to illegal immigrationas a solution to their desperate situation.

USA Department of Homeland  Security has noted an 95 percent increase in illegal immigrants coming from Honduras between 2000 and 2009, the largest increase of any country.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

António Pedro Santos in "Sol"



A six-page portfolio of António's story on the Anniversary of Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor was featured in "Sol" newspaper's  "Tabú" magazine.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Diego Ibarra in "La Razón" cover



See the set of portraits of Asia Bibi husband.

Asia Bibi - Sentenced to death in Pakistan



Diego Ibarra/4SEE

Asia Bibi, a simple christian woman who worked her life on the fields of a muslim landlord was accused and sentenced to death in November 8th for allegedly have commited blasphemy against The Profet Mohammed.

Her life has changed dramatically when a complaint to a  muslim cleric of a local mosque threw her into a spiral of torture and  violence. She faced great hostility due to her religious beliefs,  intolerable and  diferent from the vast majority of the Pakistani people.

The case of  Asia Bibi, is the first  case in Pakistan and it's the first time Pakistan Laws apply a death sentence to a Christian woman regarding a case of  blasphemy.

Asia's husband is portrayed in this set.

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