Perched high above the Qadisha valley in northern Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, is the centuries-old Hamatoura monastery. In an intimate and revea... read more
It is arguably the most extraordinary story of reform in the world today. Africa's youngest leader, Abiy Ahmed, is transforming Ethiopia after decades of aut... read more
ince the country's 2011 protests sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia has been the country most willing to publicly engage with the issue of women's rights. Now,... read more
Finland has just completed a two-year trial of so-called 'basic income' for the unemployed. Two thousand people, who had been receiving unemployment benefit,... read more
Our World spent the New Year party season in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Haifa documenting the personal views of young Palestinians on the Israeli occupation, an... read more
Critics say the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has not done enough to stop hate crimes against India's Muslim minority, with a rise in 'cow vigilantis... read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, rival groups of far-right and far-left activists have battled in the streets of some American cities. Violence has broken... read more
Australia is suffering the hottest summer on record. Water is often scarce but growing demand, mainly from farming, and higher temperatures linked to climate... read more
A wave of far-right politics is sweeping Europe, with parties promising to smash the ruling elite, end migration and re-shape the EU. With elections just day... read more
Nafiseh Kohnavard travels to Iraq and Syria to hear from the Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by so-called Islamic State, and who had children with th... read more
Documentary about night runners - the elusive figures who sneak around at night in villages across Kenya, throwing stones and carrying out small acts of vand... read more
For centuries, a significant Sikh minority has grown in relative safety in Afghanistan. But, in the last decade, persecution has seen the population drop.
In northern Europe's Lapland, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, threatening the livelihood of its indigenous Sami people.
In a country where it is expected that your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you? That is a ques... read more
Denmark’s efforts to better integrate its migrant population are attracting controversy, both at home and abroad. Twenty-nine housing districts, known as ‘mi... read more
In December 2018, the people of Sudan rose up against the thirty-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. He stood down in April, but his supporters remain in co... read more
China is now thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in giant camps in its far west region of Xinjiang. The authorities insist that the facilities ... read more
Safa and Marwa are twin girls who were born joined at the head. They were brought, by their family, from Pakistan to London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s ... read more
In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell travelled in secret from the UK to northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the c... read more
Thirty years ago, the fall of the Iron Curtain was heralded in Europe as a new era of freedom and democracy. But for Russia, it marked the loss of an empire.... read more
In 2010, the UK government embarked on a major programme of public spending cuts, chopping tens of billions of pounds from many services, including policing,... read more
America’s love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and a new generation is gro... read more
In a country where it's expected that your extended family will look after you in old age, what do you do if they rejected you a long time ago? That's a ques... read more
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by approving and providing apps used for selling domestic workers in t... read more
For five months protests have rocked Hong Kong, pitting hundreds of thousands of young, idealistic demonstrators against the authorities and the might of Chi... read more
The Great Barrier Reef is in danger - it is now officially declared to be in a very poor state. Yet the battle to save a national icon has sparked furious cl... read more
Russia faces a deadly epidemic of domestic violence. For years it has been hidden from view, but now a new generation of women are fighting back. Lucy Ash me... read more
In 2007 the BBC film Bulgaria's Abandoned Children exposed tragic levels of neglect in Mogilino Social Care Home, an institute for mentally and physically di... read more
In 2016 Pakistani social media sensation Qandeel Baloch was murdered in her bed, the victim of a so-called honour killing. Her brother and five other men, am... read more
How has a small place in northern Finland managed to become Europe's most eco-friendly town? Ii has slashed its CO2 emissions by 80% and is producing 10 time... read more