For years, Henry Kissinger shaped US foreign policy like no other statesman. As National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under US President Richard Nixon, the German-born politician wielded America’s power with severity. During his tenure as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under US President Richard M. Nixon, the United States escalated attacks…… Read More
Getting pregnant out of wedlock was long seen as a disgrace in Catholic Ireland. By 1998, more than 50,000 women had had their babies taken away and given up for adoption. Many of these children are now trying to trace their birth mothers. They are also fighting for their plight to be recognized at last.…… Read More
Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest drug addiction rates. According to the Taliban, there are an estimated four million drug addicts across the country. Babrak, a former mujahideen fighter, used to be one of them. Now, he is committed to supporting addicts to detox in one of the capital’s under-resourced drug rehabilitation hospitals. Since…… Read More
It’s April 23rd 2013, a busy commercial building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, towers over thousands of workers, many of them children. As they toil away in a cramped sweatshop the force of the eight-storey building collapses on to them, killing more than a 1,000 people and permanently disfiguring a further 2,500. It emerges that this building…… Read More
In August 2017, the Dalai Lama’s Buddhist faith community was left reeling by allegations of abuse. It was claimed that the world-famous Lama Sogyal Rinpoche had sexually abused students over many years. According to the allegations, the Lama Sogyal Rinpoche had been sexually and physically abusing his students for decades. But how could Tibetan Buddhist…… Read More
Sex work is a way of life for thousands of women in marginalized communities in certain parts of rural India. For many, it is the only way to make money – also due to the Indian caste system and centuries-old prejudices which make it difficult for the families to escape poverty. But winds of change…… Read More
The most famous shipwreck in the world, the Titanic, lies more than 12,000 feet down in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, over a century on from this tragic loss, we are able to reveal the overall wreck site by virtually draining the Titanic. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Nat Geo Full…… Read More
Slovakian investigative journalist Ján Kuciak was murdered along with his fiancée in 2018. Kuciak had been working on uncovering links between state leadership and criminal networks. The murders sparked nationwide demonstrations, followed by investigations. The murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová on February 26, 2018, near Bratislava, Slovakia, sent the country into…… Read More
Criminal networks from Nigeria earn billions trading drugs and trafficking humans. They lure young women to Europe, where they’re forced into prostitution. The film accompanies investigators and meets some of the women who’ve managed to get out. In her documentary film “Shady Dealings”, director Chiara Sambuchi talks to a dedicated Italian public prosecutor, a German…… Read More
For decades, large supermarket chains dominated the global food market. But bitter price wars and the growing influence of large digital corporations like Amazon and Alibaba are plunging the sector into crisis. There’s been little to challenge the dominance of large supermarkets since the 1960s. But in recent years, the big chains have found themselves…… Read More
When Bangladesh’s men in black arrive, usually late at night, it’s like death has come knocking on your door: Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is an elite police unit that was founded in 2004 to fight terror and crime. For years, the United States and other Western countries played an important role in training and…… Read More
A joint investigation between BBC Africa Eye and Panorama has uncovered widespread sexual abuse on farms which supply some of the UK’s most popular tea brands including PG Tips, Lipton and Sainsbury’s Red Label. Women in Kenya say they’ve been forced into sex by their managers while working on plantations which have been owned for…… Read More