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  • 6.2 million people were affected by Typhoon Bhopa, which struck the southern island of Mindanao on 4 December 2012, leaving thousand homeless. More than 1,000 people lost their lives
    Families affected by Typhoon Bhopa, which struck the southern island of Mindanao on 4 December 2012, leaving thousand homeless
  • Syrian refugees in Jordan (FILM ONLY - use image 201212161403300242 for reports)
  • Nisehotsara, from Betraka, a village on Madagascar’s east coast, developed obstetric fistula after delivering her tenth child. She is now recovering from corrective surgery funded by the UN Population Fund as part of its global Campaign to End Fistula
    After 13 years living with fistula, Nisehotsara is recovering from successful surgery
  • Normal life has resumed in much of Côte d'Ivoire after the 2010-2011 poll unrest. Analysts say the political class should steer reconciliation to heal post-conflict divisions
  • Aliou Moussa So, head of a refugee community of 73 families in PK 6 village, 6km from Rosso, shows IRIN paperwork of returnees who have still not attained their ID cards after 4 years of trying
  • Aliou Moussa So, head of a refugee community of 73 families in PK 6 village, 6km from Rosso, shows IRIN his village. Many families live in metal hangars provided by UNHCR, a few in brick-built one-room homes
  • Aliou Moussa So, head of a refugee community of 73 families in PK 6 village, 6km from Rosso, with his family in his one-room home
  • Oumar Diop works at the Clinique Juridique in Rosso, which gives pursues cases of Mauritanian returnees (from Senegal) who have not been able to attain their ID cards or access their land to farm. November 2012
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    Country has started releasing sex workers from compulsory detention
  • A recent returnee family in Jaffna and beneficiary the World Food Programme's cash voucher programme. As a result of the scheme, they can focus on rebuilding their home
  • Children at Atma camp for displaced Syrians near the Turkish border. . Atme has become the temporary home to more than 10,000 people who have fled the violence as war flared in Syria
    Displaced Syrian children at Atma Camp on the Syrian side just over the border with Turkey. (Dec 2012)
  • Tomato and potato soup being cooked on an open fire at Qah Camp for displaced Syrians. The nearly 4,000 displaced people living at Qah Camp lack electricity or stoves. With the arrival of winter, the situation has become desperate. Camp officials say they
    Displaced Syrians at Qah Camp, close to the Turkish border (Dec 2012)
  • Displaced Syrians at Atma Camp on the Syrian side just over the border with Turkey on December 2, 2012. Atma has become the temporary home to more than 11,000 people who have fled the violence as war flared in Syria
    Displaced Syrians at Atma Camp on the Syrian side just over the border with Turkey (Dec 2012)
  • Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui
    Mathieu Ngudjolo was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Congo's northeastern Ituri District
  • Shojina Akter, 20, is a local Bengali in southeastweb Bangladesh, where an estimated 400,000 people are believed to be almost completely reliant on the area's forests for their livelihoods
  • Military personnel patrol the area around Ramu village in southeastern Bangladesh, where an anti-Buddhist riot was blamed on Rohingya refugees
  • As resources from the sea start to dry up, people in southeast Bangladesh have become more and more reliant on the area's forests
  • As resources from the sea start to dry up, people in southeast Bangladesh have become more and more reliant on the area's forests
  • Children play in a local rice field in southeast Bangladesh. Activists fear inhabitants could face greater food insecurity as a result of deforestation in the area
    Children play in a local rice field in southeast Bangladesh. Dec 2012
  • Jaheda Akter, 23, says her child was suffering from malnutrition before NGOs working in the area taught her about a proper diet
  • Mohammad Shafiq, a Rohingya refugee who arrived from Myanmar to Bangladesh in late October wonders when he will ever return to this country
  • A group of Rohingya children collecting water at a makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees outside Cox's Bazar. Access to potable water is a key challenge for Rohingya refugees
    A group of Rohingya children collecting water at a makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees outside Cox's Bazar. Dec 2012
  • A young Rohingya refugee washes a pan at a makeshift refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar. Access to potable water is a key challenge for thousands of Rohingya refugees
    A young Rohingya refugee at a makeshift refugee camp outside Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh. Dec 2012
  • A barbed wire fence at the entrance to a former US compound (now used by the UN) in Basra, southern Iraq
  • More than 20,000 people were affected across Sri Lanka by heavy rain and flooding on 17 December 2012
  • A nurse takes a child’s weight at a hospital in western Kenya
  • Every piece of sand from the pulverized rock is inspected for traces of gold, no matter how small it might be
    Artisanal gold miner in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri (Dec 2012)
  • The powder is then mixed with water and mercury to help extract any gold that may be present
    Artisanal gold miner in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri
  • The gold bearing rock after being reduced to a fine powder is then sieved
    Artisanal gold miner in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri (Dec 2012)
  • Gold is also extracted from rocks and the dust created by the pounding presents a health hazard for those who work without any protective equipment
    Artisanal gold miner in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri (Dec 2012)
  • Women in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri, sifting through the tailings of an old gold colonial mine site
    Women in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri, sifting through the tailings of an old gold colonial mine site (Dec 2012)
  • Artisanal gold miners either work as wage labourers, or establish their own cooperatives
    Artisanal gold miners in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at Iga Barrière in Ituri (Dec 2012)

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