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Fast fashion accounts for around 10% of global greenhouse emissions. Buying second hand is a way to reduce this impact. But what happens to the second hand clothes discarded by charity shops in the Global North?
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Hundreds of feet beneath the jungles of Ghana, thousands of sweat-soaked miners squeeze through tiny crevices to dig raw gold to feed an insatiable global industry. Considered outlaws by the government, these "galamsey" have two options - either get rich quick or die trying. As the surging gold rush draws both local prospectors and eager foreign corporations to the impoverished west-African natio…
The web is as valuable to all of us as it is to a new breed of criminal. Email scams are part of everyone's online experience. Behind them have emerged global enterprises, conning vulnerable people on an industrial scale, and earning criminals billions in the process. Meet the Scammers brings us face-to-face with the young men manning the keyboards in dodgy internet cafes - the world's latest cri…
In northern Ghana, an enduring belief in witchcraft has resulted in the exile of many women from their villages. Yet in the refuge camp of Gushegu, these women are offered a chance at reintegration.
This compelling report investigates the dirty secret our governments would like to keep hidden from us: their insidious use of developing countries as a dumping ground for our toxic e-waste.
In parts of Northern Ghana, poverty, ignorance and fear lead to extreme abuse and the exile of people accused of 'witchcraft'. While many are killed or die from their injuries, hundreds are also forced to go to witches' camps.
Ships dock every day in the port of Accra and unload their illegal cargo. Tons of televisions, computers, e-waste from Europe land here. Scrap dealers are keen to resell the outdated technology.
We follow the trail of discarded computers, TV's and fridges being shipped from Belgium to Africa. Hazardous fumes from these machines are poisoning the children who trawl through them in search of profit.
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