Raffaele Petralla

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Chained by coconut

From 2019 to 2022, various undercover investigations conducted by the animal rights
organization PETA have exposed to global attention the sad and rampant reality behind coconut harvesting in Thailand …

Living on bombs

Laos is the most heavily bombed country of human history. From 1964 to 1973 the U.S. Air Force dropped the amount of 270 million cluster bombs on the region– an average of one every 8 minutes – as part of a long military operation that was kept secret until 1991 …

Cosmodrome

Russia’s border security zone in Mezen. 300 km from Arkhangelsk and few from Polar Circle.  In this hostile territory, where environmental and climatic factors make everyday life strenuous, computing errors in the trajectories of satellites from Plesetsk’s Cosmodrome become …

The world capital of useless things

Yiwu is a city located 350 kilometers west of Shanghai. It has a population of a million and a half inhabitants, despite being a small town according to the Chinese standard, Yiwu is the largest small commodities market in the world …

Mari El, A Pagan Beauty

There is a population with Finnish ancestry living in a rural area near Joshkarola, in the Republic of Mari El, Russia. Settled in this area around the fifth century, they speak a language belonging to the Urallic family …

Hidden Queens of Dhaka

Homosexuality in Bangladesh is considered a crime.Sexual or emotional relationships between persons of the same sex are punishable by imprisonment, with penalties of up to life imprisonment with penalties …

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