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  • On 5 August 2012, the Bahr Azoum wadi (river) burst its banks, flooding several IDP and refugee sites around the town of Koukou, Eastern Chad
    The Bahr Azoum wadi (river) burst its banks, flooding several IDP and refugee sites around Koukou, eastern Chad
  • A mother and her two children in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta
  • A Ugandan officer serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) ranges a scope on a heavy machine-gun mounted on the roof of Mogadishu University 23 January. AMSIOM and Somali National Army (SNA) forces have consolidated newly captured positi
    L’AMISOM se concentre sur Kismayo
  • Bab Sharqi is a Christian neighbourhood in the old town of Syria's capital Damascus. Christians are starting to arm themselves to fight against the rebel Free Syrian Army in Syria's conflict
  • A group of "missing" children at a shelter in Dhaka.Thousands of children are reportedly trafficked in the country each year
  • ICRC President Peter Maurer visits bomb site in Syria
    ICRC president Peter Maurer on a visit to Syria
  • Anayatah Bibi, 35, is photographed with two children from her husband's second marriage at her house in the Jalozai refugee camp on August 30, 2012. Bibi is being treated for depression and violent episodes that often saw her beat her children, something
  • Fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes
  • Prison house in the Togolese capital Lome
  • Thousands of people have been displaced in parts of Kenya’s Rift Valley Province as floodwaters continue to submerge houses and schools and destroy crops. The floods have contaminated water sources
  • A displaced woman holds her baby at a makeshift settlement, Al-Rustumiiya, on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Squatters here lack proper electricity, water and sanitation and are at constant risk of eviction
  • A displaced family sits in their home in Al-Rustumiya IDP settlement on the outskirts of Baghdad. Displaced by Saddam Hussein's de-Arabization policies and then again by the sectarian conflict of 2006-7, the family lives here without proper water, electri
  • Women attend an adult learning programme at a primary school in Yei, near South Sudan's border with Uganda. Only 16 percent of the country's women are literate
    Women attend an adult learning programme at a primary school in Yei, near South Sudan's border with Uganda
  • Boy attends English lesson at a military barracks in the Southern Sudanese town of Yei
    Boy attends English lesson at a military barracks in the Southern Sudanese town of Yei (Sept 2012)
  • Al-Rustumiya settlement on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad is home to many people displaced first by Saddam Hussein's de-Arabization policies, then by the sectarian conflict of 2006-7. The settlement lacks proper sanitation and stagnation water
  • An elderly woman and a church in western Chin State. Approximately 90 percent of all Chin are Christian
  • This family lives in a makeshift settlement called Al-Rustumiya, on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. They were displaced several times, first by Saddam Hussein's de-Arabization policies in the disputed territories, and then by Iraq's sectarian
  • Former soldiers attend primary school at the barracks in Yei. There, some 400 "wounded heroes" are taking part in a catch-up programme for adults after almost 50 years of civil war disrupted education and killed an estimated 2 million people
  • A group of Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu. There are more than 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees in India
  • A scene inside a refugee camp in Tamil Nadu, southern India. There are more than 100,000 Tamil Sri Lankan refugees in India
  • A young Tamil girl sweep up outside her hut at refugee camp in Tamil Nadu. There are more than 100,000 ethnic Tamil Sri Lankans in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including 68,000 in 112 government-run camps and 32,000 outside the camps
  • A group of Tamil refugees outside their shelter at a camp in Tamil Nadu. There are more than 100,000 ethnic Tamil Sri Lankans in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including 68,000 in 112 government-run camps and 32,000 outside the camps
  • Syrian refugees have taken shelter at a makeshift tent camp set up for Syrian seasonal laborers in Al Qaa, Lebanon
  • Women and their children at a community health centre in Guinea's capital Conakry. They come regularly to have their babies weighed and measured, to update vaccinations and to talk about proper child nutrition
  • Wheat
  • Women and their children at a community health centre in the Petit Simbaya neighbourhood of Guinea's capital Conakry
  • A produce vender prepares his vegetables for market
  • A pineapple farmer sells his wares in a local market in Bangladesh
    A pineapple farmer sells his wares in a local market in Bangladesh (Sep 2012)
  • Civilians flee from fighting after Syrian army tanks entered the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
  • Syrian women and their children flee the violence in the northwestern city of Sermin
  • Trucks carrying the possessions of Kachin refugees forced back from China
  • A child sleeps on the floor at al-Rustumiya settlement on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. He is sick but his family cannot afford healthcare. More than 100 families - displaced first by Saddam Hussein's de-Arabization policies, then by Iraq's

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