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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Indian jails as a way to improve the prison atmosphere, prepare inmates for their reintegration to the outter social environment and help to reduce recidivism rate. Beyond the rehabilitation aspect, it has completly changed the life of many criminals and deliquents and it demonstrates that a soft guided introspective is much more effecient than harsh inhuman methods.

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Read more »

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The 10-minute-documentary "Mine: Story of a sacred mountain" aims to increase public awareness about a real Avatar issue in our planet earth.The Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most remote tribes, live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. The documentary shows their Read more »

Nairobi (Kenya), 22 February 2011

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that India, with one of the fastest growing economies in the world that is embracing the process of a transition to a Green Economy, will be for the first time ever the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on 5 June.

This year's theme 'Forests: Nature at Your Service' underscores the intrinsic link between quality of life and the health of forests and forest ecosystems. The WED theme also supports this year's UN International Year of Forests.

India is a country of 1.2 billion people who continue to put pressure on forests especially in densely populated areas where people are cultivating on marginal lands and where overgrazing is contributing to desertification. Read more »

Translated by Valerie Kwan.

Whether they be on the steep hills of Caracas, at the polluted outskirts of toxic waste sites in Arang (India) or by the banks of the excrement-filled Tijipio River in Recife, shanty town terrain is always fraught with risks.

The urban poor exchange their physical integrity and health for a few square metres of land and a measure of assurance against eviction. It's this last point that explains why the majority of shanty towns are found in former swampland, in regions prone to seasonal flooding, by the sides of volcanos or unstable hills, around landfills or chemical waste dumps or at the edge of busy roadways. Read more »

When nature goes out of control....