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  • Hana Mabrouk Meftha was displaced from Tawergha during the Libyan civil war of 2011 and now volunteers as a nurse in the clinic at the Turkish compound "Alhelis" site for displaced Tawergha in Benghazi. November 2011.
  • Displaced women and children from the Libyan town of Tawergha weep over dead or detained relatives at a site for displaced people in Tripoli. (Airport Road / Turkish Compound site, November 2011)
  • A trainer teaches ex street kids market gardening in Senegal
  • Ex-talibé gardening apprentices, Senegal
  • It is about making responsible lifestyle choices
  • Trying to draw the attention of the negotiators to the people in Durban
  • Kassala, eastern Sudan
  • A plane
  • A poor Egyptian sells sweets on the street [which town/city] to earn a living
  • Water trucks are unable to supply water to families in Taiz City because fighting between government and opposition forces in early December 2011 have made the roads unsafe
  • A young girl collects water from a trickling tap in Beer Basha neighbourhood, Taiz City, Yemen
  • Malnutrition has become a fact of life for all Egyptians (young and old)
  • Young Pakistan women. For generic use
    The traffickers pay the families for allowing their children to be taken away, but often exploit the children like slaves (file photo)
  • Pa Ousman Jarju, chair of the Least Developed Countries group at the UN climate change talks
  • Young Pakistan woman. For generic use
    Pakistan is considered to be free of FGM/C, but some victims, religious leaders and midwives dispute this widely-held view.
  • Some Peulh traders feel they are being targeted by the administration
  • Residents of Kinshasa arrive in the capital of neighbouring Congo, fearing violence will break out in the run-up to the announcement of presidential election results
  • Mohamud Mohamed Ali, a Somali migrant
  • Children in Dammaj village, northern Yemen
  • Women in the Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtoonkh'wa province are working harder than ever to keep their households running
  • Many vocational training programs aim to increase the self-sufficiency of vulnerable women, including widows, by helping them acquire new skills to enter trades that offer better incomes
  • Bangladeshi brothers Anis Ahmed (L) and Shohir Jamal (R). Shohir is standing on the border between the two countries, with Bangladesh is to his right. Anis is on the Indian side
  • Woman holding a beneficiary card
    Une solution idéale – les transferts d’argent offrent une alternative et assurent la dignité
  • Iklas Monu Ahmed and one of her four children. Her family arrived from Sudan by barge at Juba, the capital of South Sudan three months ago, and are still waiting to be resettled in a country of origin, one she left at the age of 11
  • The Alhelis camp in Benghazi for displaced people from the town of Tawergha, many of whom fought alongside Muammar Qaddafi in Libya’s 2011 civil war and are now persecuted by the rebel brigades. November 2011
  • Many people of southern origin who left Khartoum for the new state of South Sudan recently have returned to the north because of insecurity or harsh conditions in their homeland. This man returned to Khartoum after he was ambushed in South Sudan’s Unity
  • Iraqi Police conduct rifle drills while participating in rifle and pistol marksmanship training during the Iraqi Police Leadership Course conducted at the Iraqi Police patrol station in Karada, eastern Baghdad
    Rifle drill for Iraqi police - rights groups say attacks on minorities are rarely investigated creating a "climate of impunity"
  • A barge arrives in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, carrying hundreds of people from Sudan. People of southern origin living in Sudan lost their citizenship after the South gained independence in July 2011
  • Yala Glacier, Langtang Valley, Nepal; the lake in the foreground is evidence of glacial retreat
  • Georg Charpentier, left, the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in Libya, sits next to Khaled Ben-Ali, head of the Libyan Humanitarian Relief Agency, or LibAid, at a joint coordination meeting i
  • Burmese family registers their child for a birth certificate as part of a border drive to provide documents to Burmese refugee children born in Thailand. At Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand
    Each year, about 5 percent of children born in Thailand - about 40,000 babies primarily from poor families, ethnic minorities or migrants - are not registered at birth, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  • Burmese family registers child for birth certificate in Mae Sot: IDs are now issued to all children born in Thailand regardless of their parents' legal status
    Burmese family registers child for birth certificate in Mae Sot: IDs are now issued to all children born in Thailand regardless of their parents' legal status

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