Birth rights
More info When government officials put their own interests above the health of rural expectant mothers, the results can be deadly.
Surviving the floods
More info The Pakistan floods of 2011 claimed more than 400 lives, and destroyed the homes of more than 200,000 people. One of them was Kareem.
Power of the crowd
More info After a bribe is refused, a maternal health clinic in India is threatened with closure until the community stands up to be counted.
Right to be involved
More info The lush rainforest of Central Kalimantan gets destroyed by reckless loggers. No-one was warned but villagers now have to live with its dire consequences.
Student protest
More info When three students enrolled on a higher education course in Fiji, they hoped it would improve their career chances.
If not us, then who?
More info When a group of students in Indonesia suspected corruption in the financial management of their school, they refused to stay silent.
Pension Scam
More info “If I were to go to the office, they demand one month’s salary as bribe … it’s like a mafia there.”
Mafia land grab
More info "He was greeted with a wall that had been erected around the site, watched over by armed guards"
We want justice
More info Coming from one of the most remote corners of the world, the people of Manus Province seem an unlikely match for the might of logging companies. But they’re not alone.
Thousands speak out
More info When we held a mobile advice centre in India, we expected a few hundred people. By the end of the day, the total was in the thousands. Among them was 65 year old Ruti.
School sting
More info Simon Eyork did not set out to become a whistleblower. He set out to build a proper school. But in the course of trying to obtain funding, he helped a sting operation in the dead of night.
No shelter
More info Following a devastating cyclone, Khadija thought she was one of the lucky few when the government selected her to receive a storm-resistant new house. But then the construction began.
Seeds of change
More info At the foothills of the Himalayas lies the rural district of Jhanjharpur, a fertile region for agriculture. Yet with little money for equipment, life is a daily struggle for small-scale farmers.
Paradise’s Dark Side
More info It’s not an image you’ll find in the tourist brochures: amid the luxury hotels of Maldives’s paradise islands, an estimated 200,000 migrant workers toil under sub-human conditions.
Informed, empowered
More info In the rural district of Bihar, India, Altaf and his family are legally entitled to the land they’ve lived on for so long, but there’s a catch – they need to obtain a land entitlement certificate. And that's not so easy.
Island Support
More info When 35-year-old Benjamin* made the long trek into town to collect his reforestation grant, missing money and dishonest officials were the last things on his mind.
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