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  • A young girl raped in Bamenda, in the Katanga province, says: "before getting raped, I was betrothed. But the marriage was of course canceled. Now my father has to repay the dowry. The family of the rapist has promised to pay for it, but since then, they
    A young girl in Bamenda, in the Katanga province, DRC
  • Women raped in the DRC face several problems to access justice. The 43 year old woman raped in Kamina, in Katanga province says: "I cherish the clothes I wore when I was raped and used it to prove rape in front of the court. I've been asked to pay Fc 7000
    Women raped in the DRC face several problems to access justice
  • Fuad Ahmed Jado stands in front of his house in Tantour, East Jerusalem, where 80 residents have been cut off from hospitals in the West Bank by the Separation Wall
  • Cambodian evacuees at a shelter near the border. Thousands fled an ongoing border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand in April 2011
  • Gardasil, HPV vaccine from Merck
    Vaccines are available but expensive
  • A beach in Diani, Kenya
    Kenya's coastal paradise has a dark side
  • Outside a methadone clinic in Vietnam
  • A Jumma man in Bangladesh's CHT. 'Jumma' is the collective name for the eleven tribes of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
  • A Jumma woman in Bangladesh's CHT weaving
  • An elderly Jumma woman in Bangladesh's CHT. The two largest tribes, the 350,000-strong Chakma and the Marma, are both Buddhist, while other tribes are Hindu, Christian or practice their own religions
  • A Jumma man in Bangladesh's CHT. The Bangladesh government has long seen the area as empty land onto which it can move poor Bengali settlers
  • The Jummas have long faced violent repression from the Bangladesh military, say activists. Over the last 60 years, they have gone from being practically the sole inhabitants of the Hill Tracts to being almost outnumbered by settlers
  • A young woman with her child in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. Land continues to be stolen from the Jumma tribal people by both the army, and by settlers who are supported by the government, say activists
  • A young Jumma man looks to the camera. The Bangladesh government has long seen the Chittagong Hill Tracts as empty land onto which it can move poor Bengali settlers, with scant regard for the area’s Jumma inhabitants
  • To make best use of the land, the Jumma tribes of Bangladesh's CHT practise a form of ‘shifting cultivation’, growing food in small parts of their territory, before moving on to another area and allowing the land to recover
  • A woman in Bangladesh's southern Chittagong Hill Tracts region. In the last 60 years, the Jummas have gone from being practically the sole inhabitants of the Hill Tracts to being almost outnumbered by settlers
  • Betel nut products are used by many children in Karachi
  • The small, innocuous looking betel nut can give rise to oral cancer
    The small, innocuous looking betel nut can give rise to oral cancer
  • Sawai Sa-Marn Duang, 50, remains bed-ridden in his home in the Thai village of Nong Kun Na following a recent farming injury that left him paralyzed. The vast majority of residents have been evacuated following an escalation of fighting between Thai Cambo
  • Security forces dig a bunker in Nong Kun Na on 26 April 2011 following four days of fighting along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border
  • A woman in El Fasher, North Darfur, uses a Hippo Water Roller, a device for easily and efficiently carrying water. The "hippo roller", with its large drum capacity (usually 75 litres), frees women and children from having to spend a large portion of every
    A woman in El Fasher, North Darfur, uses a Hippo Water Roller, a device for easily and efficiently carrying water
  • Men clearing brush with machetes in western Côte d'Ivoire. April 2011
    Men clearing brush with machetes in western Côte d'Ivoire
  • Children singing 'We want peace'. Catholic mission site in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire. April 2011
    Des enfants à Duékoué chantant « nous voulons la paix »
  • A child who was wounded in a machete attack near Guiglo, western Côte d’Ivoire mid-April 2011
    A child in Guiglo, western Côte d’Ivoire
  • A charred tank on the road between Guiglo and Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire after weeks of fighting between pro- and anti-Laurent Gbagbo forces. March 2011
    A charred tank on the road between Guiglo and Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire
  • Family making sauce at the Catholic mission in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire, where more than 25,000 displaced people were living as of mid-April 2011
    Displaced people in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire rely on outsiders to tell them what is going on (file photo)
  • Child at the Catholic mission in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire, where more than 25,000 displaced people were living as of mid-April 2011
    Child at the Catholic mission in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire
  • Bullet holes inside the Msaimi home. The family had to hide in their bathroom for over a day during the fighting. Now staying with relatives, the children say they are afraid to return home
    Bullet holes inside a home at Ein Beit Alma Refugee camp, the West Bank
  • Children in a UNRWA-run boys school in the West Bank play football as part of a physical education class. Many children stayed indoors during the entire three-day incursion, teachers and parents said
    Children in a UNRWA-run boys school in the West Bank play football as part of a physical education class. Many children stayed indoors during the entire three-day incursion, teachers and parents said
  • A West Bank resident shows where Israeli soldiers blew a hole in a wall to access an apartment without being seen from the street
    A West Bank resident shows where Israeli soldiers blew a hole in a wall to access an apartment without being seen from the street
  • Damaged building at in Ein Beit Alma refugee camp in Israel
    Damaged building at in Ein Beit Alma refugee camp in Israel
  • People on a typical narrow street in Ein Beit Alma refugee camp. Residents complain of severe overcrowding
    People on a typical narrow street in Ein Beit Alma refugee camp, Nablus district, West Bank

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