For generations, families living along Bangkok's Chao Phraya River have been diving for the more-or-less valuable treasures found on the riverbed. It's their livelihood and their huts lie right on the riverbank.

Xulwi is a Guajajara warrior. He lives on a reservation on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon region, an area where illegal logging is rampant and harmful to the environment.

In Italy, thousands of Indians are employed as cheap labor in the agriculture sector. It’s an exploitative system that includes human smuggling. The working conditions are inhumane. But they enable cheap vegetables in supermarkets.

Günther Hochhäuser is a passionate marksman who fights to maintain the traditions of his homeland, Upper Bavaria. The Christian Social Union, who has been in power here for decades, could get a drubbing in upcoming elections -- to Hochhäuser’s dismay.

The UN accuses China of detaining a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and people from other Muslim minorities in the region of Xinjiang. Most have not been accused of anything let alone sentenced.

Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer live in a village mainly inhabited by staunch neo-Nazis. Once a year the couple takes a public stand against the right with a rock festival that attract such iconic bands as “Die Ärtze”.

"Mr. Erbil" is a gentleman's club in Iraqi Kurdistan. The members dress in stylish western fashions, and insist on courteous behavior -- in a region ravaged by war and destruction. They're trying to change Iraqi society.

Kosovo is secure but the Balkan country experienced a bloody war with thousands of deaths at the end of the 1990s. The withdrawal of the German Armed Forces marks the beginning of an uncertain future for many Kosovars.

Indonesia is the scene of massive deforestation – most of it illegal slash and burn.Forest fires in Indonesia have made the headlines this year. The country has the third-largest area of rainforest in the world, but it's also the scene of massive deforestation. Most of it illegal and carried out to make space for palm oil plantations.

The annual Orange Order parades raise tensions between Nationalists and Unionists in Northern Ireland. In the past, there's been violence. It's Mairéad O'Donnell's job to keep the peace in her community.