"When I started working, I would not help people when they came to me for an abortion. I would say no," says Dr Lima, an Afghan gynaecologist who...

Offensive statements about girls and women are more common than you think. Everyday, females around the world hear rude and abusive words towards...

Thumbing rides must be one of the greenest forms of travel, and despite all the scare stories and public service warnings, drivers still stop for...

Several pages from a major illustrated book I made during a long journey trough Europe. It was created spontaneously, while traveling, which...

In 1950's Tehran, in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad is 16 years old and has just gotten married to her cousin Parviz Shapour, against her family's will. A...

John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film The War You Don't See pulls no punches. Shortly before this...

"Words belong to each other," Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language....

If you wanted to know how to travel cheap because you don't have enough money, here's how you can do it almost for free!

After years of documenting migration in Mexico, Spanish-born photographer Encarni Pindado began a new project that handed the equipment —...

This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film "Lessons of Dark­ness" on...

If you think that winter has already come to your city, pictures from Oymyakon, the coldest village on Earth, might change your mind. With the...

At the beginning of a year-long world trip back in 2006, I joined Couchsurfing, the first massive, Web-based travel social network. It put a new...

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again Painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky. Sometimes...

Some 22,000 years ago, they were the largest group of humans on earth: the Khoisan, a tribe of hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Today, only...

I am part of a lost generation.
And I refuse to believe that
I can change the world.
I realize this may be a shock, but...

If Instagram followers were currency, street photographer Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York, would be a wealthy man. Known and beloved for his...

In science fiction filmdom, the destruction of the Statue of Liberty is merely a sign that the carnage is chugging along at a steady tack. But...

On the evening of August 8th, which was the third day of street fighting in the London suburb of Croydon, the protesting kids set fire to some...

When asked what the new Travel Club identity should look like, I pondered it for a long time. We all did, for countless nights. For months. We...

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors,...