India has 84 dollar billionaires, but they don’t contribute much to reduce the country’s life-threatening poverty. India also has laws which guarantee the poorest the right to be alive, but they are not well implemented in the villages. However, in remote Jharkhand, 1,000 women stand up against this injustice. They search for 1 kg of rice per person that did not reach them. But they have more on their mind than just grains – they demand respect.

Two decades after Nelson Mandela’s release out od prison, the legacy of apartheid prevails in Manenberg, Cape Town’s largest township.

The Fukushima nuclear meltdown came like a wakeup call to the Taiwanese people: Don’t they live on the same seismic fault line? And don’t they have several equally exposed power plants on the shoreline, close to cities? Activist Wang Shun-Wei and her Taipeh based NGO help fishermen and office workers to voice their concerns.

The Japanese language has two words for nuclear power: “genshi”, the “productive” nuclear power that drives power plants and “kaku”, the destructive power used for nuclear weapons. This suggests a difference that scientifically does not exist. A country that has nuclear power plants can also create atomic bombs. Six participants of the Peace Boat voyage share their experiences and opinions after Fukushima

Binka Le Breton, autora británica, ha encontrado a su “tierra de leche y miel” en la selva tropical de Brasil. Con su ONG Iracambi (colibrí), un pueblo entero y unos scientíficos voluntarios trata de investigar y restaurar la Selva Atlántica. Pero hay unos a quienes no les gusta que ellos ponen sus intereses económicos pata arriba.