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  • This is a photograph showing the back of a man from Bangladesh leaning on a banister overlooking the Bidasoa River, which divides France from Spain a river near Irun, Spain.
    A man from Bangladesh waits near Irun, Spain, on the banks of the Bidasoa River, which divides France from Spain, on 25 March 2023.
  • This is a photo showing a graffiti on the cross-border bridge that connects Spain to France. The graffiti reads, "frontiere assassin", meaning "borders kill" in French.
    Graffiti on the cross-border bridge that connects Spain to France, on March 24, 2023. French police have closed the blue pedestrian bridge in the background since 2021.
  • This is a photograph. It shows a line of Sudanese women who've had to escape the war standing in an arid environment. They're all carrying things in their hands. One has a child on her side. They are waiting in line to receive aid.
    Sudanese refugees in the Chadian border town of Koufron, head to a food aid distribution on 9 May, 2023.
  • A map showing both countries of Sudan and Chad. There are locator dots in Khartoum, EL Geneina and Koufroun.
  • A graphic illustration showing a computer screen at the center. Above we see tangled cables hanging from the cieling. Below the computer we see crowds of people looking at the screen.
  • This image is the title card of a video that was made for a poem called The flooded, colonised and coloniser by Shailja Patel, a queer Kenyan feminist activist writer, author of Migritude. In the background we see a flooded area. People are holding on to what seems to be a hand rail while waters rush through them.
  • At the center of the frame is a man wearing military clothes. He is mid-stride and looking to the side. He has a fire arm over his shoulders. His wrists rest at each hand of the firearm. Across his body and waist are ammunition belts.
    Somali government soldiers. An ongoing offensive against al-Shabab has made good progress, but the jihadist group has proved in the past to be remarkably resilient.
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  • A map of Myanmar and all its neighbouring countries. The map is in different tones of gray. Myanmar is highlighted in white. Labelled are India, China, Laos, and Bangladesh.
  • A graphic image with a red background. On the left we see an old mobile phone standing upright with its screen broken. There is an alert notification bubble to the left of it. Behind the phone is a tower of coins. Some footsteps trail from the coins and lead to the silhouette of a person carrying a stack of coins.
  • A map showing Sudan and South Sudan. These two countries are highighted in white, their borders dark gray to diferentiate them from other countries. There are locator dots indicating the location of Khartoum in Sudan and others on Renk, Paloch, and Juba in South Sudan.
  • We see the outside of an acupuncture clinic in Myanmar. The door to the clinic is open and we partially see two people laying in bed. On both sides of the wall are framed pictures. The one on the left is a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi. The one on the right is a painting of a red boat.
    Like other heath centres near Myanmar's borders, Mae Tao clinic in western Thailand has seen a rise in malaria, malnutrition, and conflict injury cases since a military junta took power in Myanmar in 2021.
  • An illustration showing what looks like a bank within a cage. A dollar sign floats above it.
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  • A graphic image. In the background black and white piles of 100 US dollar bills. At the center, a green piggy bank with a sprout coming out of it. Two piles of coins are next to it. One in front and another at the back of the piggy bank.
  • Pictured here is a family that has been left homeless by the bombing, and is taking shelter near the ruins of their destroyed home. There are two men, one woman and one boy. One of the men and the boy are laying on top of what looks to be a mattress which has been placed on top of rubble. The woman and other man are sitting on the rubble. It is night time, and the detroyed home is illuminated by a campfire that is to the right of the family.
  • The picture shows a street at night illuminated by street lights. At the center we see an armed person holding a fire arm across their chest. Behind them what looks to be a patrol car.
    Members of DIPAMCO — a police special forces unit — on patrol in December 2022 in San Pedro Sula as part of a state of emergency that gave them extra powers to crack down on gangs. Despite this, killings and massacres have continued throughout Honduras.
  • Pictured is the preparations for the burial for Omar Cruz in Honduras' Bajo Aguán Valley, in the Colón Department, now the most violent province of the country. Cruz, the leader of a cooperative physically occupying a palm plantation they allege was taken from them by agribusiness giants, had been assassinated by unknown gunmen alongside his brother in law in the town of Tocoa just two days before. A crows surrounds what looks to be the burial site.
    Family members prepare a grave for the leader of a Colón cooperative opposing the seizing of palm plantations by agribusinesses. Omar Cruz, killed in January 2023 by unknown gunmen, is one of eight social leaders murdered since the end of last year.
  • The environment in the photo is arid. At the center of the image are the scraps of a vehicle which was allegedly destroyed by a Moroccan drone in Western Sahara.
    An image of a civilian vehicle allegedly destroyed by a Moroccan drone in Western Sahara in 2023 posted on a Sahrawi WhatsApp group.
  • A graphic 2D map of Western Sahara. In it you can see a dotted green line that marks the Morocco–Western Sahara Land Boundary. Also highlighted on the map is the Polisario held territory, marked in orange. Also marked in the map are the cities of Tindouf in Algeria, Bir Mogherain in Mauritania and Mehaires from Western Sahara.
  • The photo is taken through prison bars. We see several rows of prisoners who are sat on the floor with their head between their knees and their hands behind their necks. Most prisoners have tattoos on them.
    Authorities carry out a security check in a prison in El Salvador in March 2022. As part of his hardline response to a wave of gang violence, President Nayib Bukele decreed a maximum emergency in all prisons where gang members are serving sentences.
  • Graphic with this text on it: “If international donors don’t want to fund us since we’re giving the military arms – fine, we’ll just fundraise elsewhere”
  • A graphic with this quote: ‘We can’t have one rule for Ukraine and another for the rest of the world.’
  • A graphic illustration showing a silhouette of a person. They are facing away, you can only see their back. In front of the person are two arrows. One points to the right the other to the left.
  • A map of Sudan. The regions of West, Central, South, East and North Darfur are highlighted. There are pointer dots on Khartoum, El Geneina, Nyala, El Fasher, Zalingei and El Daein.
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  • A woman stands in front of a window that has a banner on it. She wears a bright blue shirt. The wind is blowing and her hair flows towards the right of the picture. She is smiling and wears sunglasses.
  • A woman stands in front of an orange wall. She wears a pink button-up shirt with no sleeves. She is smiling as she looks directly at the camera.
  • At the center of the photo we see a make-shift tent. Several different fabrics make up the tent. behind is is a wired fence. On top of the fence are various items of clothing hung to dry. IN the background we see trees.
  • Three individuals are in this photo. A man sitting on a plastic white chair on the left. At the center a woman resting on a hammock, half propped up looking at the camera. Next to her is a child leaning closely to the woman. All are in a makeshift encampent.
  • At the center of the image is a woman bending at the waist cooking in a makeshift fire. Behind her are makeshift tents. There are trees in the background.
    Rosa, 44, from Venezuela cooks over over an open fire in the new encampment housing asylum seekers and migrants that formed in Matamoros, Mexico last year.

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