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Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as 12, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb - often without consent - as part of a Danish campaign to control Greenland's growing Inuit population in the 60s and 70s.
The Danish government has announced an independent investigation into this so-called "Coil Campaign". Read here.
Photo: Holga sits in the spot outside her former school where she was in pain after the coil was inserted
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[2019] It's been 10 years since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. For thousands of people, missing family members and friends are a constant reminder of the trauma of the conflict. Read here.
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The Yanomami people are the largest relatively isolated ethnic group in South America. Living in the Amazon rainforest, they've long been losing their land and culture to illegal gold miners who've been cutting down forests, poisoning rivers, and introducing deadly diseases.
As part of a BBC team, we were invited to meet with members of the Yanomami in the Pico da Neblina National Park. They were assisting scientists in their western discovery of new species. [More below]
Almost perpetually shrouded in clouds, Brazil’s highest mountain Pico da Neblina meaning 'peak of mist', towers 2,995m above the Amazon rainforest.
Stretching into dense jungle, the remote National Park was a 'dream destination' for leading scientists who, for the first time, gained rare access to the region in 2017 with help from indigenous leaders and the Brazilian army.
I was part of a small BBC team that joined the journey into the forest and on the mountain.
Nine new species were discovered.
A small snapshot of life in the Uzbek border-town of Termez. These photos were taken while making a documentary on Afghans who’d fled Taliban rule in 2021, with many facing no choice but to return to a life they’d escaped from. The documentary ‘Living in Limbo: Uzbekistan’s displaced Afghans’ was made for BBC Uzbek, Persian, and Pashto.