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Facebook and other social media giants are being manipulated by governments and corporations, weakening democracies.

No country epitomises the consequences of this battle more so than the Philippines.

And no individual personifies the struggle against it more so than Maria Ressa.

Maria is the editor of Rappler, a digital news outlet that flourished under Facebook, and she now says is being crushed by it as the government uses it to shut down its critics.

Witness follows Pidia as he runs The Husband School, a course aiming to teach the men of rural Sierra Leone to overcome the legacy of sexual war crimes and treat their wives with respect and dignity.

Vivien starts a food movement using heirloom seeds native to Palestine but is it sustainable?

Armed with poetry a Palestinian journalists takes on the Gaza siege with nonviolent protest, but will his initiative succeed?

A former Somali refugee who is now a rising American model is forced to navigate a demanding New York fashion world and family expectations.

Oula has run a mobile library in the Nordic Arctic for 40 years, but as retirement looms the future of the bus is uncertain.

Close to the Arctic ocean, a tribal council leader is working to reunite her tribe that was forced to split due to the Cold War.

An Egyptian pigeon fighter is determined to beat a rival neighborhood in his final duel before family pressure forces him to quit.

Far away from Venezuela's capital Caracas lies a coastal town struggling to feed itself. Cradled in the Gulf of Paria, the town survives on fishing, but almost everything else is smuggled to its shores from neighboring Trinidad.

With no end in sight to the country's political and economic crises under President Nicolas Maduro, Jhan Lopez is growing more desperate by the day.