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  • [Kyrgyzstan] UNFPA presents its new report on gender issues [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    UNFPA launching its new report on gender issues in Kyrgyzstan
  • [Nigeria] Located in the centre of Kaduna city, north of Nigeria, the Family ressource and councelling centre is one of the biggest HIV testing centre in the area.
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad Region, Pakistan, Pakistani soldiers work to open a road destroyed by the earthquake here containing a small river that shifted course over a road. [Date picture taken: 10/19/2005]
  • [Pakistan] OSOCC Command center Muzaffarabad Pakistan, OSOCC commander Rob Holden who led relief efforts from the start of the Pakistan earthquake briefs UK Sec. State for International Development Hillery Bunn on the state of Relief efforts. [Date pictur
  • [Pakistan] Doppata, Pakistan, A 76 year old man tell how he lost his 4 sons and 1 daughter and 3 grand children when his house collapsed. Only he and his wife survived, he walked 38 km to try and find food and a tent for he and his wife. [Date picture tak
  • [Pakistan] Garhi Dobatta, Pakistan, Bodies are still being brought down from the mountain villages. The villagers tell similar stories, all their homes are destroyed and they are sleeping outside in near freezing temperatures. Relief agencies are facing a
    Bodies being brought down from mountain villages
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Pedestrians step of a crevasse in the pavement. The quake has left roads destroyed and impassable and often blocked by landslides making relief efforts difficult. Of the nearly 1000 villages affected by the quake interna
  • People coming down from their mountain villages make their way past destroyed roads Pakistan, Muzaffarabad, 18 October 2005. On 8 October, an earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, ripped through much of Pakistan’s north, killing more than 40,0
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, A father holds his injured child as he surveys the damage to the devastated city of Balakot. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    The scale of the disaster was massive covering over 30,000 square kilometres in the most rugged mountainous terrain - the Himalayas. Despite warnings in recent years of potential seismic activity, Pakistan was ill prepared for a disaster of this magnitude
  • [Pakistan] Majhoi, Pakistan, Pedestrians make their way across a damaged and twisted suspension bridge over the Jhelum River. Transportation links lay in disarray all over the affected region. [Date picture taken: 10/19/2005]
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, President Musharef arrived in Muzaffarabad, his helicopter landed and sat for several minutes before taking off again. The president did not emerge from the helicopter. [Date picture taken: 10/18/2005]
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, An injured child clings to his father outside a field hospital. [Date picture taken: 10/18/2005]
    Muzaffarabad: an injured child clings to his father outside a field hospital
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, An injured man carried for many hours from his mountain village enters Balakot. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    Thousands of people were injured in the devastating quake which has already taken close to 50,000 lives
  • [DRC/ROC] Ex-Mobutu palace guards in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. [Date picture taken: 10/2005]
    Ex-presidential palace guards of the DRC in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, after being stopped for returning to their homeland.
  • [Liberia] Vigiliantes patrol dirt tracks in a suburb of Monrovia. They say they have to be the first line of defence against a high crime rate because the police can't get the job done. [Date picture taken: 10/16/2005]
    Violent crime is a problem in Monrovia, where vigilante groups protect neighbourhoods
  • [Pakistan] Kumhar Bandi Forest, Pakistan, Desperate victims of the earthquake climb the sides of a truck carrying supplies to toss the cargo over to waiting people. [Date picture taken: 10/19/2005]
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, A family makes its way over a rubble pile at a women only school. According to the principal of the institution over 400 people are still entombed beneath the rubble. [Date picture taken: 10/18/2005]
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, A ticket sold to raise money for Tsunami relief lies among the rubble left behind from the Pakistan earthquake. [Date picture taken: 10/18/2005]
  • [Pakistan] Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, two people coming down from a devastated village stop to look at a row of destroyed homes. [Date picture taken: 10/18/2005]
  • [Lebanon] Singing about AIDS. Actors in Lebanon perform a musical play called "Insan 2005" about the problems of a young HIV-positive man who falls in love. October 2005.
    Singing about AIDS in the musical play Imran 2005
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, A food truck caught in the earthquake. As it tipped one way, a hotel fell on it from the other direction. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
  • [Liberia] In the capital, Monrovia, even the beach shacks are surrounded by barbed wire to deter criminals [Date picture taken: 10/13/2005]
    In Liberia even beach shacks are protected with barbed wire to deter criminals
  • [Lebanon] An AIDS awareness poster in Lebanon, where the social rejection of people who are HIV-positive is still a major problem. October 2005.
    HIV-positive people face social rejection in Lebanon
  • [Liberia] Liberians queue to cast their ballot in 11 October polls, the first since the end of a 14-year civil war. [Date picture taken: 10/11/2005]
    Liberians queue to cast their ballots in 11 October election
  • [Egypt] Amna Aly Ibrahim, mother of three and wife of a taxi driver in the Cairo slum of Houtaya, learned to sew thanks to a project of the Arab Alliance for Women aimed at boosting the income of women in poor households. October 2005.
    Amna Aly Ibrahim can now make clothes for her children and others for sale
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, Earthquake victims dig through donated clothing dumped at the roadside. Though clothing is plentiful, shelter, food and medical facilities are in short supply. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    Earthquake victims dig through donated clothing dumped at the roadside in Balakot
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, Two distraught women sit quietly at a food distribution after they found that women would not be given food as the bags where to heavy for them. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
  • [Pakistan] A mother and child await medical assistance in Bagh. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    A mother and child await medical assistance in Bagh
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, A man left homeless since the earthquake sits among the jumbled pieces of a highway. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
  • [Liberia] Frances Johnson-Morris, head of the National Elections Commission in Liberia. [Date picture taken: 10/11/2005]
  • [Somalia] Hundreds of people waiting outside the Somaliland election commission offices for results of parliamentary polls. [Date picture taken: 10/16/2005]
    Voters waiting outside the NEC offices for results of the elections.
  • [Pakistan] Balakot, Pakistan, Two children sit on the rubble of a destroyed home in Balakot. The suffered total devastation with one official stating Balakot has ceased to exist. [Date picture taken: 10/17/2005]
    Two children sit on the rubble of a destroyed home in Balakot in October 2005. The town suffered total devastation with one official stating Balakot has ceased to exist.

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