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Global Perspective 2009 - Islands

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Global Perspective 2009 - Islands

Isolated Gaza, Canada's remote Albert Bay and the story of an Australian who sometimes feels like a stranger in his own community - the theme chosen for 2009 by Global Perspective, a collaboration of international broadcasters, is: islands.

 

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A prison within a prison

People in Gaza City face enormous mental health problems, including extremely high levels of depression and post traumatic stress disorder. Eric Beauchemin visits one family that is suffering from depression.

 

Death Diminishes Me

Fifteen funerals within five years - that's the situation Shane found himself in the early 1990s when his friends started dying from AIDS. Shane is one of five men from New Zealand who share stories about being HIV+.

 

Islands of security

Gated communities are increasingly popular, especially where the difference between rich and poor is the greatest. In Johannesburg, guarded residential estates are becoming islands of refuge from crime in South Africa.

 

Traffic islands: dividing lines

Not all islands are idyllic vacation destinations - some are surrounded by traffic. This programme explores the collective narrative created by people in the US whose lives intersect in different ways with traffic islands.

 

Chung King Mansions

Hong Kong is a place with more than 260 islands. But one is unlike all the rest. Chung King Mansions has a colourful past, a chaotic present and an uncertain future which make it a fascinating ‘work-in-progress.'

 

Across the water

In 2005 the Fair Isle community of around 65 people advertised worldwide for a family to join them. From 800 applicants, Tommy Hyndman, a hat-maker from New York, his wife and their young son were chosen.

 

The Peakist

Facing the future can be a dispiriting business with news bulletins full of daily doom and gloom. But former oil man Lloyd Morcom has a plan and he hopes to involve his local Australian community in the process.

 

My life so far

Five young people from the remote Canadian island of Alert Bay were loaned recording equipment, given some training, and a simple task: Tell us about your life. CBC's contribution to the series Global Perspective.