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  • A member of Iraq's SWAT police - tasked with escorting UN staff as they travel - stands guard during a UN meeting at an office in Basra, southern Iraq in July 2012. International aid workers in Iraq rarely travel without armed escorts.
  • A member of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) on guard in Basra, southern Iraq. (July 2012)
  • Voter in Burundi. July 23, 2010
  • Voter in Burundi. July 23, 2010
    A better ballot; all parties have agreed on revisions to the electoral code.
  • A member of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) protects international aid workers as they visit displaced people at al-Rustumiya settlement on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Aid workers have armed escorts every time they leave the Green Zone. (J
  • An old man in his home in Al-Rustumiya, an informal settlement for displaced people on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The residents are at risk of eviction and have nowhere else to go. (July 2012)
  • Voter. For generic use
  • Women line up to use latrines at one of the Protection of Civilians site the United Nations has established in Juba. Aid agencies are warning of dangerous water and sanitation facilities in the camp.
  • State governments have undertaken only haphazard and inadequate measures for protection against natural disaster like this Assamese village which has lost over 1,000 hectares of land, completely destroying human settlements
  • Poor preparedness in northeast India is worrisome for humanitarian consequences. This family in Assam had to be relocated three times after losing their homes due to frequent heavy floods
  • A shopkeeper serves a customer in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  • Billboards displaying advertisements for international money transfer companies, are seen new the Kilometre 4 junction in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  • A man counts Somali shilling notes having just exchanged US Dollars with a money changer on the streets of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  • A shopkeeper serves a customer in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  • A money exchanger counts Somali shilling notes on the streets of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
  • Mohammed Musa, 20, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has been in Indonesia for a year, eight months of which he spent in detention. Now he is staying at accommodation provided by the International Organization for Migration in Makassar
    Rohingya refugees at IOM-managed accommodation in Makassar pass their days waiting for "good news"
  • Mohammed and Minara Ali are Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s Rakhine State. After a failed to attempt to reach Australia by boat, they spent a year in detention in Jakarta
    Mohammed and Minara Ali spent a year in detention after a failed attempt to reach Australia by boat
  • Over 300 children in a P6 class in Gudele East Primary School, Juba. (Apr 2014)
  • Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) response teams visited and surveyed the flood-affected areas of Kabul, and with the support of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) distributed food items including rice, cooking oil, s
    Searching for common ground between humanitarian principle and Islamic precepts
  • A rescue worker walks away from the bombed-out shops to the Red Cross tent after an explosion outside Al Taqwa mosque, in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli. Twin bomb blasts in August 2013 killed tens of civilians. The attack against the Sunni mosque cam
  • Children at a child friendly space supported by Plan International in Awerial, Lakes State (Apr 2014)
  • Man and daughter at Melijo displacement centre in Eastern Equatoria State (April 2014)
  • 14 April 2014. El Fasher: Plane crash drill organized by UNAMID Air Operations at El Fasher international airport, North Darfur, with the collaboration of the Government of North Darfur, Red Crescent, Fire station and the Boys and Girls Scouts.
  • The scene outside the entrance to al-Salam mosque, in Lebanon's northern Tripoli city, after twin bomb blasts in August 2013 killed tens of civilians. The attack against the Sunni mosque came at a time of heightened tensions in Lebanon's sectarian society
  • 13 November 2012. El Geneina: A woman with her child attends a workshop on healthcare and Yellow Fever prevention in a community center in Al Riad camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in West Darfur, in collaboration with the international NGO Terre Des
  • Calamba city, Laguna province, The Philippines. October 2009. Staff and volunteers from the Philippine National Red Cross distribute blanket and hygiene goods and make a tour to reassess the damages and the condition of the evacuation centers one month
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conducts a seminar on the protection of civilians in armed conflict under Islamic law (Shariah) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL), as part of its dialogue with Muslim scholars on the rules of war.
  • Malnourished child with mother at the Complexe Pediatrique (children's hospital) in Bangui, CAR
    Trauma compounds the effects of extreme poverty, adding to the risk of malnutrition
  • Children in the Central African Republic are reflected, amid clouds, in a pool of water
    Le conflit n’épargne pas les enfants
  • Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa, is one of the tour guides working for a community-based association running a reforestation project at the Analamazaotra Forest Station in northeast Madagascar
    Justin Claude Rakotoarisoa is one of the tour guides working on the reforestation project
  • Farmers tend to their fields in Ghawchak village, Sukhroad district, Nangahar province. Afghanistan is vulnerable to droughts. (May 2012)
    Les fermiers afghans sont vulnérables aux sécheresses cycliques
  • Western Union
    The money transfer business in Africa is dominated by international companies such as Western Union

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