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  • Girl buying charcoal in the Adjamé neighgourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's economic capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A woman and her ailing child in a low-income housing area of Côte d’Ivoire's economic capital, Abidjan. The child needed a hernia operation but the woman could not afford it after the boy's father was killed in the post-election violence. July 2011
  • A local aid worker and a girl in a low-income housing area of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A boy in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A boy in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • Children in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • Children in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • Children in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • Boys playing football in Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A girl in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A girl in the Adjamé neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan. July 2011
  • A weapon belonging to a Toposa warrior from South Sudan
    A weapon belonging to a Toposa warrior from South Sudan
  • A boat carrying sub-Saharan African migrant workers arrives in Lampedusa from Tripoli. Thousands of migrants have made the perilous journey
  • Yemen protestors
  • Yemeni army soldiers
  • A billboard promoting peace in Kotido District in Uganda
    A billboard promoting peace in Kotido District in Uganda
  • A bullet hole in the window of a district security office in Kaabong town serves as a reminder of Karamoja’s recent and more lawless past
    A bullet hole in the window of a district security office in Kaabong town, Karamoja, Uganda
  • Elders’ roles in mitigating criminal behavior by members of their communities is weakened by divisions between an growing independent youth and traditional leadership
    Elder in Karamoja, Uganda
  • The UPDF and police allege that some male youth remain with caches of guns in remote areas throughout Karamoja and blame some communities of not doing enough to make them hand over their weapons
    Youth in Karamoja, Uganda
  • Police commanders in Karamoja complain that they lack personnel and the logistical means to effectively pursue cattle rustlers and thieves
    Police commanders in Karamoja, Uganda
  • Moroto police records indicate 10 reported cases of cattle rustling in 2010 but actual numbers are believed to be higher
    Moroto police station in Karamoja, Uganda
  • Recruited and trained by the UPDF, local defense units operate under the command of the military. “It takes a thief to find a thief,” said one UPDF officer in the region
    UPDF soldier in Karamoja, Uganda
  • District security officers, appointed by the government in Kampala, oversee the coordination of military and civilian security forces in Karamoja, Uganda
    A District security officer in Karamoja, Uganda
  • Some communities allege harassment and torture by the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces while others say their presence is necessary for security
    Ugandan People’s Defense Forces soldiers on patrol in Karamoja, Uganda
  • The Ugandan military requires some areas to keep animals in army-protected kraals
    A cattle kraal in Karamoja, Uganda
  • A police commander explains the anti-stock-theft unit and police presence in Karamoja, Uganda
    A police commander explains the anti-stock-theft unit and police presence in Karamoja, Uganda
  • Children make their way from one village to the next in Jumla District, Karnali Zone. Girls largely miss out on education, marry young and have children young. Nearly a quarter of Nepalese women have their first child before they are 18 and more than half
    Children make their way from one village to the next in Jumla District, Karnali Zone, Nepal
  • A woman walking along the main road connecting Jumla to nearby villages. Women here bear the brunt of physical tasks. Life expectancy is 50 years old.
  • Girls sit near a doorway in Jumla, Nepal where girl babies are born to no fanfare, their birth and death at times never registered
  • A woman breaks outside a building in Urthu, two-hours walk from the Jumla district headquarters. Life expectancy for women is 50; for men, 58
  • Badam Mahatara, 46 and mother-of-four, says the discrimination in her community is never ending. Women throughout rural Nepal manage household chores and heavy manual labour, working up to 18 hours a day, even throughout pregnancy
  • Syrian anti-regime protesters during a rally in al-Assy square in the western city of Hama
    The year 2011 saw huge changes in the Arab world

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