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  • A Ghanaian peacekeeper with the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) is pictured on guard duty during a visit by Karin Landgren, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIL, in Cestos City, Liberia
  • Newborn infant being cup fed by a nurse
  • Oumar Diop, who works at the Clinique Juridique in Rosso, shows IRIN the refugee papers of Mauritanian returnees (from Senegal) who have still not been able to access ID cards
  • Syrian refugee families in Wadi Khaled, northeastern Lebanon, are renting out sheds and unfinished buildings without doors and windows
  • The Wadi Khaled valley of north-eastern Lebanon is home to more than 10,000 Syrian refugees, many of them living in unfinished buildings like this one. There is a housing shortage for refugees here, and aid cannot reach the remote area when the Lebanese a
  • A polio worker on the outskirts of Peshawar in Pakistan delivers vaccine drops, but many workers are now too scared to go into the field.
    Polio workers in Pakistan have become targets
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  • Cite de Soleil, Haiti, March 2010
  • Kurem Sulla is well aware of the importance of radio when it comes to disaster preparedness. The 35-year-old labourer, from the town of Mohadapur, a community of farmers and casual labourers north of the port city of Chittagong, now depends on community r
  • Nuba children shelter in a foxhole at the first sound of an Antonov bomber passing overhead
  • Nuba people beginning the trip to seek refuge in Yida
  • A radio presenter at Radio Sari Giri in southeastern Bangladesh, one of 16 community radio stations in the country now working to promote disaster preparedness
  • A measles vaccination programme at a small government hospital in Sukkur, Sindh province in Pakistan.
  • A single mother and her two children receive a check up at a public health facility in Swaziland
  • A public mural in Benghazi, the home of Libya's 2011 revolution, reads: "We have a dream". (November 2011)
  • A flock of sheep near the village of Al-Maitah in the Jordan Valley. Palestinian herding communities forced to evacuate from firing zones cannot move far with their animals
  • A Palestinian woman inside a tent near Al-Maitah. Applications submitted by Palestinians living in Area C of the Jordan Valley to build are rarely accepted, and demolitions of tents such as this one by the Israeli authorities occur frequently
    A Palestinian woman inside a tent near Al-Maitah, Area C of the Jordan Valley (Dec 2012)
  • Counselling for HIV-positive people organized by the NGO, Asar Alo Society, in Dhaka
  • A 10-month-long drought left the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka parched earlier this year
  • Elna Vavisoa, 10, from the village of Andranovato on Madagascar’s south coast is one of 215,000 children in the region who receive school lunches through the World Food Programme
  • A stream in Kibera slum, used as a dump site for trash and human waste
    Un cours d’eau du bidonville de Kibera utilisé comme décharge pour les déchets et déjections humaines
  • Domiz Camp in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, is the temporary home to more than 16,000 Kurdish Syrians, most of whom have arrived in the past three months. (Nov 2012)
    Domiz Camp in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, is the temporary home to more than 16,000 Kurdish Syrians, most of whom have arrived in the past three months. (Nov 2012)
  • More than half a million people have fled Syria for neighbouring countries, even Iraq (Domiz camp, Kurdistan region, Iraq)
    Domiz refugee camp, Kurdistan region, Iraq (Dec 2012)
  • Residents carry their belongings back to their flooded village in the Badin district of Pakistan’s Sindh province, on September 14, 2011
  • Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan. Domiz Camp is the temporary home to more than 16,000 Kurdish Syrians (Nov 2012)
    Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan. Domiz Camp is the temporary home to more than 16,000 Kurdish Syrians (Nov 2012)
  • A man prays near a checkpoint on the Syrian side of the Turkish Syrian border. (Dec 2012)
    A man prays near a checkpoint on the Syrian side of the Turkish Syrian border. (Dec 2012)
  • An FSA soldier at Atme camp for Internally displaced Syrians on the Syrian side just over the border with Turkey. (Dec 2012)
    An FSA soldier at Atme camp for Internally displaced Syrians on the Syrian side just over the border with Turkey (Dec 2012)
  • Women and children sitting at Atme camp near the Turkish border post. Atme, Syria. (Dec 2012)
    Women and children sitting at Atme camp near the Turkish border post. Atme, Syria. (Dec 2012)
  • Syrian refugee children draw pictures in the children's activity tent at Islahiye refugee camp in the Hatay region of Turkey. (July 2012)
    Syrian refugee children draw pictures in the children's activity tent at Islahiye refugee camp in the Hatay region of Turkey. (July 2012)
  • Makeshift refugee homes in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley. (Nov 2012)
    Makeshift refugee homes in Lebanon's Beka'a Valley. (Nov 2012)
  • A Syrian woman sheltering in newly constructed cement block shelters near a partially constructed mosque in the town of Aarsal, Lebanon. (Nov 2012)
    A Syrian woman sheltering in newly constructed cement block shelters near a partially constructed mosque in the town of Aarsal, Lebanon. (Nov 2012)
  • A support center runs programs for children at Domiz Camp, Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan. (Nov 2012)
    A support center runs programs for children at Domiz Camp, Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan (Nov 2012)

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