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A short video in two parts. Part 1 is an eyewitness account of a strike in 2002 on the Los Alamos banana plantation, owned by Ecuador’s richest man, Alvaro Norba. During the dispute workers were demanding...
The nations of the world are becoming more connected and inerdependent. There are many benefits to globalisation, but not all nations have benefitted equally. There are vast differences in living standards...
Documents the destruction of the land and people in the Indonesian colony of West Papua / Irian Jaya, and their independence struggle . The native people of West Papua are being obliterated by a repressive...
Poverty, displacement and sustainability are just some of the issues faced by the world today in the context of international development. Using case-studies from around the world, this course explores the...
In the past tourism in Brazil was all about sun and sand. Now Brazil is actively promoting the Amazon as an attraction with the aim of bringing money and jobs to the locals. Asks how tourism will affect one...
Filmed in different regions of South Asia from Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan to Kandy in Sri Lanka and in remote villages of Bangladesh and Nepal, the film covers the impact of...
Looks at how the holiday industry affects one of the poorest countries in the world, the Gambia. Tourism has become the country’s major source of income, but this video looks at the problems it causes:...
A series of three 5-minute films made to be shown in the run-up to the G8 summit in Genoa on third world debt. The first programme shows how the cancellation of some of Uganda’s debts has helped transform...
Two videos raising issues relating to the world as a global community and giving an insight into the power structures that determine how international institutions behave. One video is on the World Bank and...
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