Islands of Security : In South Africa's not so distant past the word 'Island' would have immediately conjured up Robben Island off Cape Town, the prison for decades of Nelson Mandela and his fellow political prisoners during apartheid.

But in a cou...

Ghana is an African country that is comparatively stable politically and economically, and yet large numbers of the population want to escape overseas. Ghanaians come back from working abroad and flaunt their wealth with new homes, cars and the latest ...

From the late 18th century for almost a hundred years Australia was a penal colony,a land where dense bush, mountains and sea were a greater barrier to escape for the transported convicts than any prison walls.But there were those who showed startling ...

We’ve all at some point wished we could slow down time or speed it up, maybe even go back in time and change something.Escape from Time,from Soundprint Media Center in the US,looks how our minds stretch time,how some people attempt to relive history an...

One woman a month is killed in the UK by her family in the name of honour,usually because she has rejected or tried to escape from a forced marriage,or has found a partner of her own choosing.Each year over 300 cases of forced marriage are dealt with b...

Statistics show in Canada more than 65,000 grandparents are raising their grandchildren with no assistance.The number of these so-called “skipped-generation” families is growing by a 1,000 every year.In Call Me Nana the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s...

Reflecting the way human society works in Hong Kong, as a population of migrants, there are several non-native species of animals who have escaped and made Hong Kong their home. In Where the Buffalo Roam RTHK’s Sarah Passmore looks at how Hong Kong has...

Warnings of climate change and economic instability are widespread in 2008.For some, the dire planetary predictions have pushed them to become active environmental refugees.In Escape to New Zealand, by Halina Ogonowska-Coates from Radio New Zealand,we ...

Over two thousand years ago the Dutch began digging simple ditches to drain water from their boggy ground.With this first small act they embarked on millennia of attempting to escape from what a famous Dutch poet referred to as "the water wolf".In Livi...

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