Architecture and design blogArchitectureBlood bricks: how India's urban boom is built on slave labourAfter children as young as four found working in squalid conditions, NGO launches 'blood bricks' campaign to raise awareness of human rights abuses in India's brick kilns
Across India, once small trading towns are transforming into bustling centres, as global companies flood in to set up call centres, factories and software development branches, eager to capitalise on high skill-sets at low labour prices. Read More...
Camp Cropper prison, Iraq Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Originally set up as a small 'high-value' detention site - Saddam Hussein was kept there - the prison outside Baghdad now has 2,000 inmates. US forces have around 60,000 people detained in Iraq, compared with 27,000 a year ago Fri 21 Sep 2007 07.37 EDT First published on Fri 21 Sep 2007 07. Read More...
New OrleansWhen the original Santa for the majority-Black Seventh Ward died, a new one stepped into his boots, inspired by his memory
For Theron Murphy, the only thing cooler than taking pictures as a child with a Santa Claus who – like him – was Black was eventually getting the jolly guy’s blessing to carry on his spirit. Murphy, 33, was among the generations of children taken by their parents to Dennis Photofinish studio at the corner of St Bernard Avenue and North Tonti Street in New Orleans’s majority-Black Seventh Ward neighborhood to have their portrait taken with the man countless folks in the city simply knew affectionately by his preferred nickname: “Chocolate Santa”. Read More...