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  • A dry water pan in Bondo, Nyanza Province
    A dry water pan in Bondo, Nyanza Province
  • With literacy and school-enrolment rates among the lowest in the world, the continuing fighting between local rebel groups is putting even more pressure on CAR’s fragile education system
  • A mother breastfeeds her child in Kenya's Nyanza Province
  • Dangerous business: Congolese human rights activists complain of threats and intimidation. These Judges are trying five police officers accused of the June 2010 murder of Floribert Chebeya
    Dangerous business: Congolese human rights activists complain of threats and intimidation. These Judges are trying five police officers accused of the June 2010 murder of Floribert Chebeya
  • Construction workers wait to be hired in Cairo
  • Voter registration is underway in the villages but a lot of preparation is still needed for the elections
  • Construction workers in Egypt. Those returning from Libya are finding it difficult to get employed
  • Idris Gilbert
  • Elections in CAR
  • rat, rodent, carrier of leptospirosis, animal-borne disease, slum, rural
  • Palestinian school children gather in Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron. Only two families and the elementary school are connected to a water network in this Area 'C' community
    Many children have been affected, sometimes by multiple traumatic events (file photo)
  • Yousef Hadaleen, Muktar (community leader) of Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron, stands beside a water cistern demolished by Israeli authorities in December.  The cistern was built before 1948 by his ancestors. Cisterns, used to collect rainwater, are the
  • A Chao Lay fisherman in southern Thailand. The Chao Lay are one of the most marginalized groups in Thailand. Many of stateless, landless, or both
  • Flood waters in Madagascar after Cyclone Bingiza struck the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on 14 February 2011
    Flood waters in Madagascar after Cyclone Bingiza
  • A young woman in Mauritania
    Many young women in Mauritania misuse drugs and overeat to meet an age-old beauty standard
  • “My cistern was bulldozed by Israeli authorities without warning in December,” says goat herder Saleem Hadaleen, 32-years old from Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron. About 1,200 people live in his herding community
    Saleem Hadaleen: “My cistern was bulldozed by Israeli authorities without warning in December”
  • Sign placed by the Israeli army demarcating a closed military (firing) zone in Area 'C' of the West Bank. About 70-percent of Area ‘C’ is classified as a closed military (or firing) zone, settlement areas, or nature preserves and is inaccessible to
  • Sign placed by the Israeli army demarcating a closed military (firing) zone in Area 'C' of the West Bank. About 70-percent of Area ‘C’ is classified as a closed military (or firing) zone, settlement areas, or nature preserves and is inaccessible to
  • Palestinian school children gather in Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron. Only two families and the elementary school are connected to a water network in this Area 'C' community.

UN agencies and aid organizations view Area ‘C’ as the biggest humanita
  • Yousef Hadaleen, Muktar (community leader) of Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron, stands beside a water cistern demolished by Israeli authorities in December. The cistern was built before 1948 by his ancestors. Cisterns, used to collect rainwater, are the o
  • Yousef Hadaleen, Muktar (community leader) of Khashem ad-Daraj in south Hebron, stands beside a water cistern demolished by Israeli authorities in December. The cistern was built before 1948 by his ancestors. Cisterns, used to collect rainwater, are the o
  • Ousted Madagascan president Marc Ravalomanana announced his
decision to return to the Indian Ocean island at a press briefing in
Johannesburg on 17 February 2011
  • Ousted Madagascan president Marc Ravalomanana announced his
decision to return to the Indian Ocean island at a press briefing in
Johannesburg on 17 February 2011
  • Hebron closure map (<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/ocha_opt_hebron_closure_map_july_2010_a3.pdf" target="_blank"><strong><font color=#006699>See larger version of map</font></strong></a>)
  • Flood waters in Madagascar after Cyclone Bingiza struck the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on 14 February 2011
    Flood waters in Madagascar after Cyclone Bingiza struck the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar
  • A scene in a congested slum in Manila. By 2050, estimates suggest the city's slum population in Manila will reach nine million
  • Men sift through the rubble of their burnt homes to salvage materials to rebuild anew. Thousands of people lost their homes when a fire raged through the Bahay Toro slum in Manila
    Men sift through the rubble of their burnt homes to salvage materials to rebuild anew. Thousands of people lost their homes when a fire raged through the Bahay Toro slum in Manila
  • Unemployed men wait for work offers. Joblessness encourages migration
  • Karen Ayieko, 70, outside her hut in Mtwala, Muhoroni division of Nyanza Province. Ayieko was displaced from Thessalia in Kericho district in 1994
  • Amina Ahmed Barre, Somali refugee in Djibouti
    Amina Ahmed Barre works at her sewing machine at the Ali Addeh refugee camp in Djibouti
  • Ali Addeh refugee camp, 130km south of Djiboutiville, capital of Djibouti
    Ali Addeh refugee camp was established in 1991 for a population of about 7,000. It is currently home to 14,333 refugees, 13,748 of whom are Somalis
  • Stranded IDPs in ressettlement camp in Lakang due to land conflict
    Waiting in vain: Tens of thousands of people in northern Uganda still live in camps

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