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With billions of dollars of foreign investment during the 1990's, Vietnam began a period of rapid urbanization. This inevitably has stimulated migration to cities where, as always, the construction industry [...]

The political, social and economic aspects of Bombay, India, are described. Immense gaps between the city's wealth and poverty, where office space is the most expensive in the world while 40% of the houses do not have safe drinking water, are explored. Religious and social conflict have become common. Policies of the Shiv Sena party, in charge of the city since 1995, are discussed.

Animists and Christians are being slaughtered by fundamentalist Muslims in Sudan's civil war. People are homeless, children are starving and women are being raped. The people of southern Sudan are isolated without an infrastructure or electricity.

A global report on people at work My goal is to portray people at work and to draw up a world picture of traditional industries at the end of the [...]

The funeral ceremony of seven peasants killed on 18 October 1997 in the community of Vergel by the paramilitary group UNAL (Unidad Nacional Lombardista), which had been trained and armed [...]

Presents a photoessay of Brazil's peasants and the troubles they are enduring after more than a decade of land reform which started after Brazil's military dictatorship ended in 1985. The richest 1 percent of landowners holding 44 percent of arable land; Number of Brazilians claiming their right to settle unused land.

Details Sao Paulo, Brazil, the world's second largest megacity. Population statistics; How megacities differ from one another; The growth of Sao Paulo; The difference in the social conditions of Sao Paulo residents; Details on the environment, traffic, municipal solid waste and industrial solid waste, the water supply; The sewage plant being built to clean up the River Tiete.

Reports on the ethnic conflict in Rwanda. Arrests of Hutu people; Anniversary of the genocide in 1994; Involvement of the United Nations.

Presents a photo essay of inside the Balkans' refugee camps.

Offers vivid photographs depicting the refugee problem in Rwanda. The six year project for `Rolling Stone' magazine which chronicles the fate of millions of displaced persons and the impact of population growth, war, economic change and other factors; Refugees in Zaire; Peoples' fear of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front; Rivalry between the Hutus and the Tutsis.

Presents a portfolio which depicts images of the workers of the world. Photos which show the transfer of raw material from developing to developed nations; `Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age,' by Sebastian Salgado; Coal miners in India; Tuna fishing in the Mediterranean Sea; Sulfur gatherers in Java; Fishing in Sicily; More.

Presents a photo essay on the plight of the homeless Vietnamese people displaced by the Vietnam conflict.

Focuses on Russian immigrants arriving in New York City for the first time.

Traces the roots of the Rwandan civil conflict in the twentieth century. Photographic images of the conflict; Armed conflict between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Movement (R.P.M.) and the Hutu Government; Domination of the Hutu tribespeople by the Tutsis since the 15th century; 1973 military coup led by Hutus; Comments from opposing tribesmen.

Presents a photo-essay that captures the humanity of people working, in industries ancient and modern, using methods primitive and sophisticated.

Opinion. Provides information on Chiapas, southern state located in Mexico, focusing on the Chiapas rebellion which took place in 1994. Why corn harvest is essential in Chiapas; Information on the states massacre; Number of persons killed in this massacre; Negotiations between Zapatistas and anti-Zapatistas; Population of Chiapas.

Presents a photo essay by Sebastiao Salgado featuring struggling populations at the border between the United States and Mexico and the lives of migrant workers, in particular.

The article offers information on the photographs taken by photographer Sebastião Salgado. He stresses that the photographs depict the end of an era which focuses on human workers. Salgado points out that the photographs were taken to commemorate the workers of the twenty-first century, where it has been replaced by the growth with the introduction of technologies. He asserts to focus his photographs concerning the human workforce in the past with the aim of creating awareness from among viewers as well as serve as a guide in building the future. A photograph of the coal mine in India is also presented.