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A 20-year-old who escaped from the LRA in 2017 after being held captive in Congo for a year.
Migrants on board a boat headed for Tripoli in July 2019. Critics say the EU should not be helping the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept and return people to a war-torn country where they face abuse and extortion.
Libyan Coast Guard boarding migrants onto a ship bound for Tripoli in July 2019.
Migrants wait in line at Tripoli’s naval base for buses to the Tajoura detention centre in July 2019.
A checkpoint on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso. Militant groups have stepped up attacks in the region over recent years.
Saidi Mburi has run his business for two decades. Now, he says, “people just don’t have money."
A street trader in Gatwekera, Kibera, which is home to an estimated 170,000 Kenyans.
Students receiving a donation of take-home food packages from well-wishers at Kibera School for Girls.
Migrants wait in line at Tripoli’s naval base for buses to the Tajoura detention centre in July 2019.
Migrants at Tripoli’s navy base after arriving in the port in July 2019.
A Libyan Coast Guard sailor throws a rope toward a boat carrying migrants in the Mediterranean Sea before forcing them to board the boat and head back to Tripoli, Libya. Many of those intercepted and returned to Libya this year are unaccounted for.
Paisal Marat, 24, a Malay Muslim man in Thailand’s deep south. Many young people in the south say they don’t feel a connection to the region’s conflict, and are pushing for ways to bring Buddhists and Muslims together.
Several members of an Émbera family sleep in a small room of this guesthouse in San Bernardo, a rundown area in downtown Bogotá. Many indigenous families have spent years living in dire conditions after being forcibly displaced from their land.
Jhonatan was 3 when he died of “causes linked to malnutrition”, according to the medical examiner’s office. In the months prior to his passing, at least four other Émbera children had died of similar preventable conditions in the same guesthouse.
Émbera women board the buses that will take them back to the reservation in the province of Risaralda, in Colombia’s western jungles.
A few times, authorities, together with the Red Cross, have organiSed repatriations of displaced Émbera families back to their native reservations. But some of these families have spent years in the city, many children have even been born in Bogotá, so th
Emberá groups in Bogota often organise demonstrations and “cultural acts” to exert pressure on the government. In this occasion, in late 2018, they met in Bogotá’s Plaza de Bolívar, the city’s central square to demand reparations.

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