Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America.
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The market for human research has not escaped the financial crisis: French companies testing new medicine have seen a 20% average fall in activity. As in many other affected industries around the world today, the cause can be attributed to offshoring. Many major pharmaceutical companies now carry out their clinical testing in emerging countries; and India is the epicentre.
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It’s a paradox. Never before have we worked more efficiently. Never before have we saved time with more sophisticated technologies. But nearly everyone feels they don’t have enough time. It seems that the same technology invented to make our life easier, is now enslaving us.
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China’s mishandling and cover-up of the SARS crisis is well documented. But what’s less known is the fate of the forgotten SARS survivors, now suffering the horrific after-effects of the medical treatment they received.
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This exclusive documentary goes inside Russia’s prisons to reveal the horrific conditions inmates and political prisoners are subjected to.
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‘America’s Longest War’ chronicles how, over the past 40 years, the drug war has escalated from a small domestic program, mostly focused on treatment, to the multi-billion dollar international war it is today.
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We infiltrate the Russian Neo-Nazi group "Autonomous Nationalists", one of most brutal right-wing, extremist groups in the world.
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It is not easy being a woman in India; from birth to death discrimination and violence blight many of their lives due to an accident of birth.
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