Cécile Allegra
French freelance journalist Cécile Allegra (b. 1976) has produced a large number of press and television features on humanitarian disasters with a special focus on their impact on women and children. She has also reported on psychological disturbances caused by war.
Updated: 30 March 2012
In one of Europe’s poorest cities, thousands of children are leaving school to help their families make ends meet. Part of a trend that has been accentuated by the crisis, they find work in the black economy or they are recruited for sinister purposes by the mafia. (Extracts.)