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Claudine Spera

Claudine Spera is a journalist and producer

December 2019

  • Still from Open Water documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    Open Water: Greenlanders on the climate crisis

    A glimpse into the lives of three Greenlanders: a hunter, a ship’s captain and a fisherman, individuals whose very existence and heritage is intertwined with the Arctic Ocean. Like many who live in the polar north, their fortunes straddle the extremes of summer and winter. Faced with a drastically changing environment, these seafarers reflect on their past, their present and uncertain future with a complex mix of emotions

September 2019

  • 'We will fight to the last drop of blood': embattled Kashmiris target freedom – video

    Determined to prevent security forces from entering their community, people in the suburb of Anchar, in the disputed region of Kashmir, stand united in their desire to achieve freedom from India

August 2019

  • Ice Drone Loop

    In mind: focus on mental health
    Life on thin ice: mental health at the heart of the climate crisis

    Greenland’s melting has been adopted by the world as its own problem. But for the islanders grieving their dissolving world, the crisis is personal, and dangerous

April 2019

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Plastic in paradise: the battle for the Galápagos Islands' future – video

    On one of the most isolated archipelagos on the planet, Leah Green discovers how the unique ecosystem that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution is being choked by plastics

February 2019

  • Natalia Molina in The Breadmaker documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    The Breadmaker: on the frontline of Venezuela's bakery wars – video

    In the midst of Venezuela’s economic crisis, Natalia and her Chavista collective are fighting for the future of the bakery they commandeered to feed their community

January 2019

  • Animals farmed
    Uncaged: saving China's songbirds from the poachers' nets – video

  • Now generation
    'We need free period products in schools – it's a human right' – video

December 2018

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    'I knew my life could be in danger': the girl on a mission to change Iraq – video

    Rowan, a 15-year-old from Babylon, defies the Iraqi government to speak out passionately on social injustice and women’s rights 

November 2018

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    'I will not keep silent': Khadija rape case spurs women into action in Morocco – video

    The alleged two-month torture and rape of a Moroccan teenager has prompted a campaign, #Masaktach, encouraging women to fight back against sexual harassment and violence

October 2018

  • Ali Md Kayem, a construction worker in Singapore, originally from Bangladesh, outside the construction site where he worked without pay for several months

    Modern-day slavery in focus
    Why are millions of people still trapped in slavery? – video

    Slavery is illegal in every corner of the world, yet an estimated 21 million people are enslaved globally. On Anti-Slavery Day, we ask: how is this possible?

September 2018

  • Young people around the world talk about how it feels to grow up in 2018

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    Now generation
    Our tomorrows: teenagers around the world share their fears and dreams – video

  • The philanthropist talks to Polly Toynbee about the challenges ahead in the fight against poverty, and discusses the US president's approach to foreign aid

    4:48

    Now generation
    Bill Gates: 'Trump is open-minded' – video

  • Female rangers at Gorongosa national park

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Women lead the charge in healing scars of war in Mozambique wildlife park

  • Mozambique's Gorongosa park was destroyed in the crossfire of the country's civil war. Now women are leading the way in its regeneration, helping to heal the scars left by the conflict

    9:17

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Healing the scars of war: the women rebuilding Mozambique's national park - video

August 2018

  • 'They slaughtered our people': Rohingya refugees on Myanmar’s brutal crackdown - video

    One year after Myanmar’s brutal crackdown against Rohingya people, refugees in Bangladesh speak out about their mental health

March 2018

  • Yegna

    Women's rights and gender equality
    'By Ethiopians, for Ethiopians': girl band Yegna shake off Spice Girls tag

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    'Never retreat': all-female band Yegna bring girl power to Ethiopia – video

January 2018

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    Trump's 'global gag rule': how women are fighting back – video

    A year after Donald Trump banned US aid funding for overseas organisations offering abortion services, the She Decides campaign is leading the fightback

October 2017

  • Women's rights and gender equality
    Dead or imprisoned for having an abortion: fighting El Salvador's brutal laws – video

    The country’s total ban on abortion has seen women jailed over miscarriages and dying after unsafe terminations. But amid growing protests, politicians may bow to pressure to overturn El Salvador’s anti-abortion laws

September 2017

  • The first fight
    The first 1,000 days: their impact on a child's future, narrated by Jay Rayner – video

    Observer food critic Jay Rayner explains how a child’s future depends on early interventions.
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