A year ago, Aleppo was a prospering commercial center. Now it is one of many battlefields where an unpopular regime is putting down a popular rebellion. A photo essay on daily life and daily death in a Syrian city en route to the abyss.

They starve and freeze. They see their parents die. They serve as soldiers and die themselves. Thousands of boys and girls are victims of Syria’s civil war.

Briton Ian Singleton is fighting to save Sumatra’s orangutans. His opponents: powerful palm oil plantation owners and mind-boggling stupidity. His mission: almost impossible. But only almost.

Slave labor is standard practice in the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. Now that enslaving children is no longer comme il faut, it is teachers, doctors, nurses and other professionals who perform forced labor so we can wear cheaper T-shirts.

Antonia Zennaro’s calm, melancholy pictures show what is left of Germany’s traditional sex industry milieu.

Two-thirds of the population of the German state of Baden-Württemberg voted in a referendum to continue with a controversial railway construction project strongly opposed by the governing Green party. Now that the state railways have come clean about the costs, 54 percent oppose it (Emnid poll financed by Tageszeitung/KONTEXT). Can anything be done to stop it?

Semiya Simsek’s father was the first victim of the National Socialist Underground. Like the rest of her family, she was suspected by the police of involvement in organized crime. Now she is a “good victim,” helping prosecutors prepare their case against the neo-fascist serial killers.

By Beate Lakotta, photos by Antonia Zennaro

The patrons at a once-a-week café, all of them Holocaust survivors residing in Germany, are vulnerable yet strong. Dignified, yet easily wounded. And each has a story to tell ? Or not.

Wo “Tribuna” festmacht, kommt die Gerechtigkeit sonst nicht hin: Im Amazonasdelta, zwölf Reisestunden von der nächsten größeren Siedlung entfernt, verhandeln fahrende Richter die Angelegenheiten der Uferbewohner.