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  • A Palestinian girl attending a UNRWA school side-steps the rubble of a damaged home
    A Palestinian girl attending a UNRWA school side-steps the rubble of a damaged home
  • A Palestinian apartment blown up during an Israeli military incursion.
    A Palestinian apartment blown up during an Israeli military incursion.
  • Aisha, 74, sits on the floor preparing soup from UNRWA food aid.
    Aisha, 74, sits on the floor preparing soup from UNRWA food aid.
  • Children are deprived of education and other facilities in Pul-e Charkhi Prison.
  • The number of children staying with their mothers in Afghan,September 2007. prisons is extremely high, almost equal to the number of their mothers, according to UNODC.
  • Mwenho is a NGO created by and for HIV positive women in Angola.
  • Mwenho is a NGO for HIV positive women in Angola.
  • Cars queue at a petrol station in Damascus, where from next year fuel prices are set to soar as the government begins phasing out unsustainable subsidies.
  • Sofurennesa (21) waiting in a queue at a government relief distribution camp established on the compound of a local primary school at Sirajganj on 23 September 2007. Her seven month old daughter Salma is malnourished right from her birth. This year's floo
  • UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon inspects a guard of honor upon his arrival at Juba, Sudan, September 2007.
  • Traditional dancers perform at the airport in Juba, Sudan, Septmber 2007. as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon arrives.
  • UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and President of the Government of Southern Sudan, Lt. Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit. Juba, Sudan, Spetmber 2007. speak to the press outside the office of the president after their meeting.
  • A map highlighting Socotra, a small group of Yemeni islands in the Indian Ocean close to the Horn of Africa.
  • UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon upon his arrival at Juba, Sudan, September 2007.
  • Nadia Abdel-Qudoos (not her real name), 23, says she has been forced to keep away from her old friends because they belong to a different sect or religion. Her photo has been distorted to protect her identity.
  • Lake Alakol's strong waves threaten coastal villages.
  • Rosa Pedro is an Angolan activist who for years was afraid of taking the HIV test.
  • Rosa Pedro is an Angolan woman who refused to take the HIV test despite all the symptoms she had and even the death of her daughter, who she suspects was born HIV positive. After she was diagnosed, she became an activist.
  • Mother of 12, Mary Akiteng, feeding her five-month-old baby, says  the community in northeastern Uganda  most needs treatment for the children who are the worst affected by malaria. The community also needs food and shelter.
  • Some of the communities cut off by the floods in northeastern, Uganda, Spetmber 2007 were seen from the air after floods that devastated the region. Several houses were destroyed. Thousands are displaced by floods.
  • Residents try to sun-dry cassava tubers that had rotten following water going through their granaries, Thousands of people in the region are in dire need of help following torrential rains that have flooded the areas destroying crops and houses.
  • A polluted beach in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. Local residents use the beach for washing as well as for disposing human waste.
  • Children drawing clean water for washing from a well. New Kru town in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.
  • A mural promoting good hygiene. New Kru town in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown.
  • Hundreds of people in Herat have lost their jobs due to a worsening security situation.
  • There are only 2,700 police to protect over two million people in Herat Province.
  • Community members dredge silt from the bottom of the river to backfill behind sand bag walls that they erected beside the primary school in Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, September 2007.  By working between the rains, they have been able to fill
  • Flooding in Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2007.
  • Children had to walk through water to go to school after flooding in Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Spetember 2007.
  • Dr. David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements Group
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
  • Roads in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire are lined with stranded trucks and cars, as torrential rains and years of non-maintenance have rendered many roads impassable. This is on the road between Odienne and Tieme in the Denguele region.
  • Madhesi civilians have also been victimised following attacks from Pahade groups.

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