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  • Boats loaded with migrants that are intercepted by the Lesvos Coast Guard are taken to the port in Mytilene, the island's main town, where they are fingerprinted and registered before being turned over to police
  • The iShack's first resident are Nosango Plaatjia, her husband Ntoya, and their three children which has solar powered lights and a phone charger among other things
  • Police detain Syrian migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos. With nowhere else to accomodate them, migrants are kept in police station cells for several days or even weeks
  • Female community health volunteers in Nepal are the face of health care to many of the rural poor
  • A bread shop on Jalalabad Road, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bread is not fortified in Afghanistan, and many suffer from malnutrition. Taken in January 2012
    A bread shop on Jalalabad Road, in Kabul, Afghanistan
  • A bread shop on Jalalabad Road, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bread is not fortified in Afghanistan, and many suffer from malnutrition. Taken in January 2012
    A bread shop on Jalalabad Road, in Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Landless rural dweller protesting in the capital of Cambodia in January 2012
  • Swaziland’s High School for the Deaf painting a mural at the school
    Students at Swaziland’s High School for the Deaf painting a mural
  • At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at t
  • A Malian woman and her family at Mentao-Centre refugee camp, which houses 8,189 refugees
    A Malian woman and her family at Mentao-Centre refugee camp, which houses 8,189 refugees
  • Refugee pupils living near the capital have been integrated into Burkinabe schools
    Schoolchildren in Ouagadougou (Oct 2012)
  • Liberian ex-refugees who have been living in Buduburam camp outside of Accra for years, lost their refugee status in July 2012. 1,000 will return home this year. Ex-refugees line up to weigh their luggage before leaving for Liberia on a UNMIL flight in Se
  • Lunchtime cricket
    Lunchtime cricket
  • Victoria is a 10-year-old girl with a mental disability who was put in Jesus Divine Temple (Nyakumasi) Prayer Camp, where she was chained to a tree all day and slept on a mat in an open compound. She had no relative present at the camp at the time Human R
  • Uganda currency
  • Mohamed Ali Ag Inorene fled the Timbuktu region and fears he will never be able to return home
    Mohamed Ali Ag Inorene fled the Timbuktu region and fears he will never be able to return home.
  • Three young Malian refugees play football in Mentao refugee camp
    Three young Malian refugees play football in Mentao refugee camp (Oct 2012)
  • A Tuareg from Timbuktu makes key chains to help support her family in Somgandé refugee camp
    A Tuareg from Timbuktu makes key chains to help support her family in Somgandé refugee camp
  • Mohamed Ag Mohamedin, a cattle-herder who fled the town of Gossi near Timbuktu, now lives in Djibo
    Mohamed Ag Mohamedin, a cattle-herder who fled the town of Gossi near Timbuktu, now lives in Djibo
  • High numbers of refugees means water is in short supply in Djibo refugee camp, northern Burkina Faso
    Djibo refugee camp, northern Burkina Faso (Oct 2012)
  • “We cannot… live in a country where our neighbours hate us,” said a Tuareg refugee in Ouagadougou
    Tuareg refugee in Ouagadougou (Oct 2012)
  • Members of Islamist group Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which is in control of much of northern Mali and has imposed Sharia law
    Members of Islamist group Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which is in control of much of northern Mali (Oct 2012)
  • A gendarme in the south east Madagascan port city of Taolagnaro shares a joke with his colleagues
    A gendarme in the south east Madagascan port city of Taolagnaro (Oct 2012)
  • Madagascar’s paramilitary gendarmerie has about 11,000 personnel and is responsible for rural security
    Madagascar’s paramilitary gendarmerie has about 11,000 personnel and is responsible for rural security (Oct 2012)
  • Madagascar’s paramilitary gendarmerie has about 11,000 personnel and is responsible for rural security
    Madagascar’s paramilitary gendarmerie has about 11,000 personnel and is responsible for rural security (Oct 2012)
  • Madagascar’s paramilitary gendarmerie has about 11,000 personnel and is responsible for rural security
  • Roads are one of the few sources of income in the north, still recovering from a decades-long civil war that ended in May 2009
  • Road construction in northern Sri Lanka. Large-scale infrastructure projects offer one of the few job opportunities in the north
  • A young vegetable seller in Jaffna. More than three years after the conflict ended, jobs are limited
  • A young man looks to the camera in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. Unemployment is rife amongst young people in the former conflict zone
  • Guineans say they still face abuses by police and gendarmes. This man said his son was shot dead by a gendarme during clashes on 22 September 2012
    Guineans say they still face abuses by police and gendarmes. This man said his son was shot dead by a gendarme during clashes on 22 September 2012
  • Love, a community hired security guard, with his young child in Bevilany, in south east Madagascar
    A community hired security guard, with his young child in Bevilany, in south east Madagascar (Sep 2012)

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