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  • A woman holds a child at a displaced persons health clinic outside Sittwe, the provincial capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine State. Tens of thousands were displaced following communal violence in the area in June 2012
  • Two men sit under the the remnants of their homes in Sittwe, the provincial capital of Myanmar's western Rakhine State. More than 2,000 homes were destroyed in June following communal violence in the area
  • Cooking outdoors can play a signficant role in reducing children's exposure to to smoke from the use of solid fuels and hence, reduce the risk of pneumonia. Solid fuels remain the principle household fuel for around 3 billion people worldwide. More than 9
  • More than 95 percent of the Lao population use solid fuels for cooking. According to UNICEF, reducing children's exposure to smoke from use of solid fuels is an important means of preventing pneumonia among children
  • Tuareg rebels who want a separate secular state in northern Mali
  • View of Jebel Mohsen neighbourhood, Tripoli, northern Lebanon. Jebel Mohsen's residents, mostly Alawi, have been at odds with the mostly Sunni residents of Bab al-Tabbaneh. The Syrian conflict has made their age-old sectarian tensions worse
  • Mali Islamist rebels occupying swathes of northern Mali
  • Burnt shop of an Alawite resident of Jebel Mohsen neighbourhood, Tripoli, northern Lebanon, June 2012. Sectarian tensions have risen due to the spillover of the Syrian crisis
  • A group of women working the fields in Banke District in Nepal's Mid-Western Region. About 80 percent of the population is dependent on agriculture as their source of livelihood (June 2012)
    Women working the fields in Banke District, mid-western Nepal (June 2012)
  • Egyptian voters holding up posters of the two presedential candidates in Cairo on June 16 2012
  • Congolese refugees board a truck at Bunagana on the Uganda-DRC border heading to Nyakabande transit centre in western Uganda’s Kisoro District, 19 May 2012. Hundreds of Congolese refugees (30,000-40,000 refugee) have camped at Uganda-Democratic Republic
    Congolese refugees board a truck at Bunagana on the Uganda-DRC border heading to Nyakabande transit centre in western Uganda’s Kisoro District (May 2012)
  • Gladys Brima, a women's rights and gender activist, founded the Sierra Leonean non-profit Women's Partnership for Justice and Peace that works to combat gender-based violence and promote women's rights. Here Brima discusses the government's draft land pol
  • A group of women in Nepal's Mid-Western Region. Many women earn their livelihood through agriculture
  • A Congolese refugee woman and her children at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro district, Uganda. May 2012
    A Congolese refugee woman and her children at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro district, Uganda (May 2012)
  • Congolese refugee children stand in front of their shelter at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro district, Uganda. May 2012
    Congolese refugee children in front of their shelter at Nyakabande transit centre, Kisoro District, Uganda (May 2012)
  • Congolese refugee children at Nyakabande transit camp in Kisoro, southwestern Uganda. May 2012
    Congolese refugee children at Nyakabande transit camp in Kisoro, southwestern Uganda (May 2012)
  • Refugee traders from Sudan's Blue Nile State parcel up tiny amounts of salt at a camp in Jamam (May 2012)
    Refugee traders from Sudan's Blue Nile State parcel up tiny amounts of salt at a camp in Jamam (May 2012)
  • Refugee mothers from Sudan's Blue Nile State at a clinic near the border in South Sudan's Upper Nile State
    Refugee mothers from Sudan's Blue Nile State at a clinic near the border in South Sudan's Upper Nile State

  • New refugees from Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile State at a site called Kilometre 18 in South Sudan's Upper Nile State are living under makeshift tents
    New refugees from Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile State at a site called Kilometre 18 in South Sudan's Upper Nile State are living under makeshift tents
  • A dehydrated refugee rests at an MSF clinic at a site called Kilometre 18 in Upper Nile State, northern South Sudan
    A dehydrated refugee rests at an MSF clinic at a site called Kilometre 18 in Upper Nile State, northern South Sudan
  • Refugees from Blue Nile's Bau County in Sudan at a makeshift refugee site called Kilometre 18 in Upper Nile State just inside South Sudan
    Refugees from Blue Nile's Bau County in Sudan at a makeshift refugee site called Kilometre 18 in Upper Nile State just inside South Sudan
  • Refugees fleeing bombs and violence in Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile State lack shelter and mosquito nets at sites like Kilometre 18 in South Sudan's Upper Nile State
    Refugees fleeing bombs and violence in Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile State lack shelter and mosquito nets at sites like Kilometre 18 in South Sudan's Upper Nile State (June 2012)
  • When Sia Bona's father died, she lost access to the oil-palm plantation that provided a small income and the rice swamp that provided food for the family. Bona lives in Koidu town, headquarters of Sierra Leone's eastern Kono region, where land and inherit
  • A Chin family in New Delhi. There are less than 10,000 Chin refugees living in New Delhi today
  • A Chin family in New Delhi. There are less than 10,000 Chin refugees living in New Delhi today
  • A bus shuttles refugees from a makeshift site called Kilometre 18 in northern South Sudan to nearby Yusuf Batil refugee camp
    A bus shuttles refugees from a makeshift site called Kilometre 18 in northern South Sudan to nearby Yusuf Batil refugee camp (June 2012)
  • New refugees from Sudan's Blue Nile state fill jerry cans at a watering hole called km 18 near the border, where aid agencies say dehydration and diarrhoea are the biggest killers. Over 35,000 people
have flocked here in recent weeks and aid agencies say
    Refugees from Sudan's Blue Nile State fill jerry cans at a makeshift site called Kilometre 18 just inside South Sudan (June 2012)
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  • Anima Hassan Omer tries to feed Khalifa Plumpinut at an MSF clinic at KM 18, but the baby's continuous vomiting and diarrhoea sends her back to the aid agency's Jamam hospital in South Sudan's Upper Nile state
  • Her face hidden, a young Cambodian woman who was abused while working as a domestic worker in Malaysia. Scores of women fall victim to human traffickers in a desperate effort to escape poverty - and face little recourse on their return home
  • Bol Duop at a transit site for returnees to South Sudan on the outskirts of the capital Juba
  • Recording a program in the Radio Biso studio

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