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The amazing prison of San Pedro

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:04:09 +0000

In the penitentiary center of San Pedro, in Bolivia, 1600 prisoners live with their family and possess the keys of their cell, without that the administration finds there to criticize. This small community works as an independent society, with its rules, its economy, its justice and even its political process.

a Photo report by Bruno Fert/LightMediation Agency

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Parution SUISSE – Kosovo: An 1. par Bruno Fert

Thierry Tinacci — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:15:13 +0000

Kosovo : a « newborn » country.

Thierry Tinacci — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:42:12 +0000

The » NEWBORN » monument, which thrones in the city center of Pristina,symbolizes by itself the situation of the country.Kosovo is a « newborn », it will be one year old on February 17th, 2009: it is the youngest country in the world.

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Parution Argentine – ELLE – Umoja de Bruno Fert

Pierre Ristic — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:08:51 +0000

Toujours les Umoja de Bruno Fert mais dans le ELLE argentin cette fois ci:

Parution Bulgarie – ELLE – Umoja de Bruno Fert

Pierre Ristic — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:47:27 +0000

Deux belles doubles dans le ELLE Bulgare avec le sujet sur les Umoja:

Umoja – a women’s commune in northern Kenya.

Pierre Ristic — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:16:11 +0000

Three hundred and eighty kilometers north of Nairobi, a clan of Samburu shephers -closely related to the Masai- have assembled in the middle of the savana for the circumcision ceremony of their young.

At sunrise, twenty adolescent boys aged between 12 to 22 undergo the rite of passage that will bring them into the adult world. Close by their sisters and cousins come before the knife as they, too, experience ritual excision. Despite the official ban on female genital mutilation introduced in Kenya since 2001, the girls know that without undergoing the ritual their chances of finding a spouse and getting married would be seriously compromised. In the midst of this, the wife of a local chief protests in vain. Rebecca Lolosoli has been campaigning against the practice of female circumcision, though her pleas fall upon deaf ears. In her forties, the charismatic Lolosoli was invited to the UN to speak on the issue so close to her heart, and happens to be founder of Umoja ( »Unity » in Swahili), a village where the law is in the hands of women…

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