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.
Caught on camera
More info When Hoda tried to renew her work contract, the official wanted to force her into a relationship. She had other ideas.
Corruption derailed
More info When a new city mayor took office in 2010, he contacted the team to ask for their help in rooting out corruption in the transport office.
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.
Water Crisis
More info For many of the impoverished communities in South Africa who lack basic sanitation in their homes, accessing clean water for survival is a daily battle.
Police whistleblowers
More info When two respected police officers found evidence that traffic offences were being wiped and interfered with, they did what their job demanded of them.
Police crackdown
More info Carmela was sleeping at home when she was woken by banging. Rushing upstairs, she found her son being beaten by cops, who later dragged him off to their local headquarters. The 50-year-old mother knew his freedom would come at a hefty price.
Hunger Money
More info When drought ravaged Zimbabwe's Hurungwe region in 2011, families were left destitute. Help should have come from a state scheme, but community members were telling a very different story.
Parents’ nightmare
More info Nyasha* was only nine years old when she was raped on her way to school in Zimbabwe.
Keeping schools clean
More info The head teacher and governing body chair of a school in Soweto, South Africa were accused of stealing public funds. With the help of local authorities, we took action.
Who is to blame?
More info After a fatal fire at a nursery, despair turned to anger. Reports emerged that the state-funded nursery was privately run by the wives of two local officials, and had passed safety tests despite allegedly not meeting the criteria.
Future of hope
More info Bright and studious, Balkissa dreams of studying medicine after she’s finished school. But the future hasn’t always looked like this.
Stealing Futures
More info Peter* was looking forward to collecting his four children's report cards at the end of the school year, but there were some crippling costs involved. If he didn't cough up, his children's futures could be at risk.
The drought industry
More info Piauí is one of Brazil’s poorest and driest states. Drought has reached emergency levels in 199 of the 224 districts. The exploitation of water shortage here is not only a lucrative business but a wielder of power.
Restoring hope
More info Fadzai’s aunt managed to save enough money to buy the child a school uniform. Little did she know at the time, that was the start of her troubles.
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.
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.
Birth rights
More info When government officials put their own interests above the health of rural expectant mothers, the results can be deadly.
Finding the way home
More info Back in the 1970s, Ziad had a home and a livelihood. Then the civil war came.
Ghost Politics
More info Eager for change, residents in a Guatemalan town voted in a local politician promising big things. But a year into his leadership, nothing had changed. It was time for the community to take action.
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.
Honesty Test
More info As the driving lesson drew to a close, he pulled the car to a halt and waited for final feedback from his teacher. What came next was not what he had expected.
Health problem
More info Blind in one eye, and visually impaired in the other, Little Ayan* urgently needed an operation to correct her vision. But without money or connections, her family could do little to help.
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.
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